🚨 **Orthodontic Aligners: A Cautionary Tale** 🚨
I recently received a treatment plan for orthodontic aligners via DM from a company, with zero knowledge of basic orthodontic mechanics. Here’s a summary of the issues I noticed (and trust me, they’re not minor): 1️⃣ **Attachment Misalignment**: Inadequate size and position of the attachments. aside from this the plan relies on a buccal attachment for upper premolar rotation, for almost 20-degree without utilizing palatal attachments or elastics. 2️⃣ **Bone Health at Stake**: The continual expansion and retraction of the premolars can have a drastic effect on bone density. We must prioritize the long-term health of our patients! 3️⃣ **Timing Trouble (wrong staging) **: The plan appears to be moving all teeth simultaneously, leading to unsynergistic movements. Timing is everything in orthodontics as teeth move like a chess pieces. 4️⃣ **Torque Trouble**: The wrong mechanics used with cross elastics for correcting the lower right five are questionable, introducing negative torque in th