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🚨Precision Cuts vs. Buttons: Making the Right Choice in Aligner Therapy🚨

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  🚨Precision Cuts vs. Buttons: Making the Right Choice in Aligner Therapy🚨 As an orthodontist working with both fixed appliances and aligners, one of the most common clinical decisions faced is: When precision cuts and buttons should be used ? Through understanding of the fundementals of biomechanics in orthodontics, this comparison might help you in your cases: Precision Cuts - ✓ The preferred choice for Class II correction and deep bite cases ✓ Particularly effective for preventing unwanted retroclination ✓ Patient-friendly with no additional bonding required ✓ Biomechanical insight: Functions similarly to applying elastics on rectangular heavy wires in fixed appliances, offering excellent torque control and equally distibuted forces. Buttons - ✓ For combined movements: extrusions, rotations, and significant root control ✓ Requires bonding (which can be a patient compliance consideration) ✓ Delivers direct force application when needed ✓ Biomechanical...

Tempromandibular Dysfunction Cases - ORTHODONTICS

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  if you are intersted in this article please follow for more readings https://myorthodonticsblogg.blogspot.com/     👈🏻 Case 1   1-      A 19-year-old female college student reported to the dental office complaining of a generalized muscle soreness on the left side of her face. The pain was accentuated with chewing. It had been present for approximately 1 week. In discussing the problem, she revealed that this type of pain had been present on several other occasions, 2, 6, and 8 months ago. She did not report any noticeable change in her occlusion but felt that the pain did limit her mandibular opening. Further questioning revealed that each of the three episodes of pain, as well as this episode, accompanied her college examinations. The clinical examination revealed tenderness of the right and left masseters (score, 1) and the left temporalis (score, 1) muscles. Functional manipulation of the left inferior lateral pterygoid provoke...

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