CLEAR ALIGN THERAPY: AN EFFICIENT BIOMECHANICAL TOOL IN 3D ORTHODONTIC MOVEMENTS IN CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY
Authors:
Incorvati Cristina, Meazzini Maria Costanza, Demonte Leonardo, De Gennaro Claudia, Autelitano Luca
Affiliation:
Doi: 10.54936/haoms242p65
ABSTRACT:
Frequently Craniofacial patients require at the end of their facial growth orthognathic surgery in order to achieve final facial aesthetics and functional occlusal balance. Planning dental and skeletal movements remains the most challenging step to ensure acceptable and stable outcomes in complex skeletal deformities. Recent advances in dental technology specifically the introduction of Clear Aligner therapy (CAT) in clinical orthodontics offer a new 3D tool with the aesthetic advantage to make this therapeutical phase more acceptable in craniofacial patients.
The possibility to merge CBCT to the intraoral scan allowing a complete visualization of the root surfaces .This new functionality seems extremely useful to accurately predict the requested dental movement in both pre-surgical and post-surgical orthodontic phases. At the present the inability to integrate different osteotomy cuts , according to the surgical needs, in the dental set up is a significant limitation and further research is needed. A case series, where this methodology has been applied will be presented
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Authors:
Incorvati Cristina, Meazzini Maria Costanza, Demonte Leonardo, De Gennaro Claudia, Autelitano Luca
Affiliation:
Doi: 10.54936/haoms242p65
ABSTRACT:
Frequently Craniofacial patients require at the end of their facial growth orthognathic surgery in order to achieve final facial aesthetics and functional occlusal balance. Planning dental and skeletal movements remains the most challenging step to ensure acceptable and stable outcomes in complex skeletal deformities. Recent advances in dental technology specifically the introduction of Clear Aligner therapy (CAT) in clinical orthodontics offer a new 3D tool with the aesthetic advantage to make this therapeutical phase more acceptable in craniofacial patients.
The possibility to merge CBCT to the intraoral scan allowing a complete visualization of the root surfaces .This new functionality seems extremely useful to accurately predict the requested dental movement in both pre-surgical and post-surgical orthodontic phases. At the present the inability to integrate different osteotomy cuts , according to the surgical needs, in the dental set up is a significant limitation and further research is needed. A case series, where this methodology has been applied will be presented
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