Orthodontic protocols by Raffaele Spena

Category: Orthodontics

Instructor(s): Raffaele Spena

Course structure: Lessons: 6 lectures | Duration: 8 hours 14 minutes

Course overview

Raffaele Spena online course consists of 6 webinars, during which you will learn:
The possibilities of the active self-ligating appliance
The rationale for alveolar corticotomy: detailed protocol
Non-extraction and extraction treatment of Class 2
The ectopic teeth: impaction, transpositions, and transmigrations.

The doctor will review the most important aspects of treatment:
Diagnostics and differential diagnostics
Step-by-step planning
Devices and methods of their use
Finishing stages of treatment.

You will learn:
Treatment methods:
Self-ligating braces
Minimally invasive surgery for orthodontics
Orthodontics with tooth extraction
Orthodontics without tooth extraction
Corticotomy
Pathologies:
Tooth impaction
Tooth transposition
General questions:
Biomechanics in orthodontics
Teeth movements
Bite:
Class II (skeletal and dental alveolar forms)
Directed regeneration:
Guided bone regeneration

Curriculum

Treatment with active self-ligating appliance

• Program:
• Straight wire technique. Short review
• The possibilities of the active SLB
• Efficiency of active self-ligating appliance
• Incisors and canines control
• The CCO System (Complete Clinical Orthodontics)
• The reasons for new prescriptions for active SLB
• Some important tips for correct brackets positioning
• The need for a proper sequence of archwire
• When properly apply inter-arch forces
• When properly apply intra-arch forces
• The importance of a good finishing
• Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Alveolar corticotomy: a different perspective

• Program:
• Regional acceleration phenomenon
• Alveolar corticotomy
• The rationale for alveolar corticotomy
• The open flap surgery
• The flapless surgery
• The grafting that may be associated to corticotomy
• The orthodontic management of the cases
• When to use corticotomy
• Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Non-extraction treatment of Class 2

• Program:
• Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
• Plan a non-extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
• How to diagnose and treat the associated transverse problems
• How to distalize upper molars
• How to manage the overjet and the overbite
• How to use intra-arch elastics
• How to use fixed intra-arch appliances
• How to finalize cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Extraction treatment of Class 2

• Program:
• Indication for extraction treatment of Class 2
• Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
• Plan an extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
• How to decide which teeth extract
• Space management
• How to manage space closure
• How to manage anchorages
• How to control torque
• How to finalize cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

The ectopic teeth treatment: impaction

• Program:
• Interoceptive treatment
• Diagnosis of ectopically erupting teeth
• Prevention of impaction
• Biomechanics in orthodontic treatment of ectopia
• How to surgically manage the impacted teeth
• How to orthodontically manage the impacted teeth
• How to control the anchorages
• How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
• Clinical cases of the most common impactions.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

The ectopic teeth treatment: transpositions and transmigrations

• Program:
• Diagnosis of complete and incomplete transpositions
• Treatment of complete and incomplete transpositions
• Early treatment and interception of transposition
• How to surgically manage the transposed teeth
• How to orthodontically manage the transposed teeth
• How to control the anchorages
• How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
• Clinical cases of the most common transpositions
• Cases with canine transmigration.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.