Curriculum

Curriculum

The Fundamentals for
Orthodontic Success

Who Will Benefit from This Course?

Confidently treat 50% of the orthodontic cases that you see everyday in your practice. Stop referring the easy ortho cases and increase your revenue!


Case Types You Can Treat Upon Completion of This Series:

Non-extraction adult dentition Class I, mild Class II and III Aligners and braces

Seminar 1 seminar-1
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Seminar #1: Intro to Digital Orthodontics

  • Benefits of ortho to patients and practice
  • Scan and create orthodontic simulations for every patient
  • Discuss ortho with patients and incorporate ortho into the GP practice
  • Taking proper orthodontic records
  • How to create and analyze ortho simulations using Progressive Medit App
  • Why we need a lateral cephalometric X-ray for ortho treatment
  • Understand skeletal and dental relationships - AP and vertical
  • Learn to identify profile and face types and how they effect treatment decisions
  • Basics of growth in the simulations
  • Understanding auto traced lateral ceph data
  • Present/discuss treatment options and alternatives with patients
  • Intro to ortho mechanics and molar movements/molar based simulations
  • Methods to limit advancement: IPR when and how (Bolton)
  • Aligners vs brackets: Tools in your toolbox
  • Hybrid treatments - using brackets and aligners together to improve outcomes
  • Identifying uncomplicated cases - which cases are appropriate for my level of education and experience. When to refer the case to a specialist
  • How to submit a case to Progressive Aligners
  • Using your coach, consultant, and/or mentor for success
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Seminar #2: Analyzing Simulations

  • Case selection for success
  • How to estimate crowding and amount of incisor advancement
  • Patient informed consent for aligner treatment
  • Understand the Progressive Aligner case submission prescription form
  • Single vs. dual arch treatment
  • Attachments, when, why and how to bond
  • Treating the sagittal (anteroposterior plane), class I, class II and class III with aligners
  • Maxillary sequential distalization protocols
  • Treating the transverse plane with aligners - expansion protocols, cross bite
  • Treating the vertical plane with aligners - open bite and deep bite protocols
  • How to resolve spacing and crowding with aligners
  • How to evaluate and optimize the aligner set-up
  • Using the Progressive Aligner software and 3D modifications
  • Understand the features used in aligner treatment (attachments, cutouts, ridges, ramps etc.)
  • Step by step how to treat an aligner case - what to do at each appointment
  • Aligner wear schedules and rate of tooth movement
  • Setting patient expectations and giving patient instructions for aligners
  • When and how to request revisions and refinement aligners
  • Ordering retainers and retention protocols
  • See ortho principles learned in Seminar 1 and Seminar 2 applied to case studies
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Seminar #3: Treating Accepted Cases

  • Ordering the Fixed Appliance: Progressive SmileStream for bracket cases
  • Treating Bracket Cases: What to do at each visit, bracket protocols
  • Bracket and clear aligner case studies
  • Troubleshooting - Detecting, preventing and solving treatment issues
  • Common Aligner Treatment Problems – How to Overcome Them
  • How to get support when needed
  • What makes one case easy and another case difficult?
  • Finishing your cases
  • DentalMonitoring—Using AI to limit patient visits to the office,
  • Improve efficiency, productivity, and patient compliance
  • Pre-restorative Ortho Applications
Hands-On Lab seminar-4
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Hands-On Lab: Experiential Learning

  • How to Use a Dental Monitoring Scan Box
  • Ortho Mini-Mold Instrument for buttons and bite ramps
  • Progressive Medit App case work-ups (if time allows)
  • How to bond and remove brackets
  • Learn proper bracket positioning on each tooth
  • Use ligature & elastomeric ties to attach brackets to arch wires
  • Place open coils and chain to help align teeth
  • Bond attachments and buttons for aligners
  • Familiarize yourself with instruments used for braces, aligners, IPR, and fabricating retainers in your office (714) 973-2266

Contact Us

Call us at 1.714.973.2266 or send an email to info@posortho.com

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