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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...

Accelerated tooth movement

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  if you are intersted in this article please follow for more readings https://myorthodonticsblogg.blogspot.com/     👈🏻 Device assisted approach : 1) Direct electric current effect on tooth movment: - It's a mechanism passed on applying electric current on different sites during the orthodontic treatment to generate local response & accelerate the bone remodeling. - Pressure site -->   anode is placed - Tension site -->   cathode is placed Disadvantages : The bulkiness of the device and its irritation to the patient is the main drawback, so to overcome this -->   Studies where made to invent a  BIOCATALYTIC FUEL CELL to generate electricity intraorally using enzymes and glucose as fuel. -It's placed on the gingiva near the alveolar bone. -Small in size / minimal tissue injury Disadvantages : - Short  lifetime - Poor power density   2)Cyclic force device effect on tooth movement : Nishimura et al in 2008 , used a Ni-Ti...

Comprehensive Cleft Lip & Palate Management Protocol

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  if you are intersted in this article please follow for more readings https://myorthodonticsblogg.blogspot.com/     👈🏻 Outline: 1.      Introduction 2.      Treatment goals 3.      Prenatal period 4.      Neonatal period 5.      6 months to 2 years 6.      2 to 7 years old 7.      Mixed dentition 8.      Permanent dentition 9.      References 1-    Introduction  Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is the most frequent congenital facial abnormality. Its incidence varies according to studied populations but is usually between 1 and 1.82 % for each 1000 births. 1 Children with cleft lip and palate may experience a multitude of physical and developmental challenges. There also may be psychosocial and emotional concerns for the patients and their families. 2 As s...

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