Case Studies

Dr. Dave Paquette discusses a combination treatment that reduces time in orthodontic treatment The concept of “accelerated orthodontic treatment” has gained much notoriety lately. Although patients of all ages want to stay in orthodontic treatment for the shortest time possible, adults are particularly sensitive to their treatment duration before committing to start the process. For […]

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Dr. J. Peter Kierl discusses how his practice incorporates aligner therapy As suresmile® users since 2005 with over 4,000 finished suresmile cases, we first incorporated suresmile elemetrix aligner therapy into our practice in 2013. We are a multi-doctor practice since 2011, with three locations. My co-practitioners are Dr. Philip Kierl and Dr. Heather Kierl. Getting

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Drs. Michael Choy and John Burnheimer discuss closing a patient’s severe anterior open bite in 4 months Figure 1: Pretreatment photographs Abstract An 8-mm anterior open bite in an 18-year-old man was closed in 4 months by means of a passive self-ligating system using a differential bonding technique without extractions, surgery, miniscrews, or multiloop archwires.

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Dr. Robert Waugh discusses how a digital workflow yielded positive results for a teenage girl When the goalie on my daughter’s soccer team presented for an exam at my orthodontic practice, my heart sank when I realized she had retained her primary maxillary canines. “MK,” a 12-year-old female, first came to me on January 18,

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Dr. Nelson Oppermann discusses a technique to correct a narrow maxilla

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Drs. Domingo Martin and Jorge Ayala illustrate treatment using the FACE concept of orthodontic treatment

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Dr. Edward Lin discusses efficient and effective digital innovations

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Drs. German O. Ramirez-Yañez and Carlos M. Mejia-Gomez discuss intercepting developing malocclusions as early as possible to reduce the risk of more complicated treatments

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