Abstract

Lingual Appliances – What’s New?

by Wiechmann Dirk

There will be no future for the orthodontic specialty without the pursuit of high quality treatment outcomes. If quality is constantly compromised, the orthodontic specialty will simply disappear. This is a major concern, particularly for young orthodontists who have just finished their several years of specialisation. Completely customized lingual appliances have significantly improved lingual treatment over the last decade. The focus of recent scientific evaluations in this field has been predictability and quality of lingual treatment outcome. The lecture will present evidence-based results in the field of dentoalveolar compensation in Class II, Class III and cross-bite cases. Completely customized lingual appliances offer many options to improve the quality of treatment outcome such as SS-archwires with extratorque from 3-3, SS-archwires with compression or expansion and a lingual Herbst device. To facilitate the clinical application of completely customized lingual appliances together with it's options, self-ligating brackets have been introduced recently.

Learning Objectives

After this lecture, you will be able to define quality in orthodontics
After this lecture, you will be able to suggest solutions for dentoalveolar compensation
After this lecture, you will be able to riflettere sul futuro dell’ortodonzia.