Abstract

Efficiency in Orthodontics ... on the Lingual Side

by Stradi Roberto

In modern society, the esthetic is playing a more and more important role, magnified by the "online lifestyle". The orthodontic world has, thus, developed alongside these concepts, providing patients with a wider range of choices, concerning the orthodontic appliances, potentially capable, nowadays, to treat a wide variety of malocclusions. In the last decades, the lingual orthodontic world has boosted the implementation of its appliances, in order to meet the patients' requests and expectations. The components were truly miniaturized, in order to make them more comfortable and tolerable for the patients. The precision of each of them has always been a must, but today with the CAD-CAM workflow it's become an even stricter point. This allows us to be as precise as possible in accomplishing our daily orthodontic activity, whatever the difficulties and the needs of the orthodontic cases are. For these reasons, Lingual orthodontic treatments represent, according to my humble thoughts, the gold standard of (not only) esthetic orthodontic treatments. In my lecture, I'll try to defend my thesis, supporting it by means of literature references and clinical cases, carried out with different approaches.

Learning Objectives

After this lecture, you will be able to select a lingual Treatment
After this lecture, you will be able to understand lingual biomechanics
After this lecture, you will be able to carry out a lingual treatment