2B Flashcards
Clear aligners
● Esthetics highly valued in US more than other countries
○ Treatment is becoming more esthetic → colorful ties; shaped brackets; ceramic brackets/wires; clear braces (aligners)
● Adult vs. Child acceptability of orthodontic appliances:
○ Clear trays & ceramic were esthetically acceptable for both child & adult
○ Stainless steel was acceptable for child 70%, but only 50% for adults
Clear aligner advantages:
● Esthetics
● Hygiene (bc removable)
● Comfort
● Tooth movements (intrusion of posteriors; other movements more difficult)
Clear aligner Limitations:
● Tooth movements:
○ Translation →
difficult to put force & moment with plastic tray
Clear aligner Limitations:
● Tooth movements:
■ Tipping & uprighting
easier to achieve
Clear aligner Limitations:
● Tooth movements:
○ Rotation →
difficult; possible to rotate round teeth
Clear aligner Limitations:
● Tooth movements:
○ Extrusion →
very difficult; esp. for triangular shaped teeth like incisors (only a small area of undercut to grab onto)
Clear aligner Limitations:
● Speed ⇒
0.25mm/aligner
○ Often changed 2x month, so total 0.5mm/month
■ Speed disadvantage is overcome when you have
multiple movements going on at once, ie. intrusion on some teeth, extrusion & rotation on other teeth)
○ Conventional braces ⇒
1mm/month
Clear aligner
● Expense -
neutral
○ Added lab expense, but reduced treatment time & less frequent readjustments
Invisalign Process (submitting to company):
- PVS impression (or intra-oral digital scan) & bite registration
● PVS impression of uppers & lowers (even if only treating 1 arch)
○ Tray needs to reach distal of terminal molar
○ Don’t need to capture palate
○ Seat impression vertically without tilting (unlike seating alginate posterior to anterior to express excess) - Panoramic radiograph or full mouth series
- Extra & intra-oral photographs
- Prescription form (online submission)
Bit registration & panoramic/full mouth series no longer required
Invisalign treatment options:
● Express ⇒ maximum
10 stages with some clinical restrictions
○ Maximum extrusion of 0.5mm
○ Max. posterior extrusion of 0.5 mm
○ Max. interproximal reduction of 2mm per arch (treats 2 mm of crowding)
○ No sagittal (AP) corrections required
Invisalign treatment options:
● Full ⇒
unlimited stages; up to 3 refinements & mid-course corrections available
Invisalign treatment options:
● Teen ⇒
similar to full
○ Has compliance indicators & eruption tabs (maintains space for eruption)
Invisalign treatment options:
● Assist ⇒
reboot treatment or have more checkpoints
Invisalign:
● Choose where to place
attachments (composite buttons placed to facilitate movement of teeth
Invisalign:
○ Don’t place attachments on
implants, 3 unit bridges, or ceramic crowns (will have to repolish)
Invisalign:
● Treatment will affect
overbite/overjet & midline - program shows resulting changes after alignment
Invisalign:
○ Interproximal reduction may be necessary to maintain
initial position
Invisalign:
● For pts with spacing →
can close all spaces or maintain spaces (for implants, etc)
Invisalign:
● For pts with crowding → can correct
via lateral expansion of molars/premolars
Invisalign:
● Need to check how they plan to move
teeth (some movements are not easily done with invisalign)
Invisalign works like a
flexible archwire
● Amount of force determined by amount of distortion & tray material
● Attachments help direct the forces
Before choosing to procline teeth to correct crowding, make sure there’s no
recession
Normal physiology of sleep:
● Characterized by
decreased body temp, metabolic rate, sympathetics, but active brain
Sleep
○ Decreased sympathetics:
↓ HR, BP, RR
Sleep
● Not a ‘time out’ ⇒
increased parasympathetics & GH secretion
Non-REM sleep
● 3 stages ranging from light dozing to deep sleep
● 75% of sleep
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
● 25% of sleep
● Dreaming occurs
● Characterized by eyelid fluttering, rapid eye movement, irregular breathing
○ Muscle paralysis (prevents moving during dreams)
○ ↓ body temp & changes in HR & BP