Lesson 1 - Treatment planning and mechanics design
- Definition of a three-dimensional treatment objective
- Mechanics concepts that we need in orthodontics
- Anchorage selection and assessment
- Shape and force driven mechanics
- Statics, Forces, Moments, Rigid Bodies
- Force as a vector. The moment of the force
- Center of ResistanceVectors and their Manipulations
Lesson 2 - Teeth movement prediction. Force systems
- Force Systems
- The couple of forces
- Equivalent Force Systems
- Dental Movement and Center of Rotation
- Relations between applied force system and dental movement
- Biomechanics analysis in 3D
- Translation
- The center of rotation
Lesson 3 - Torque. Positioning brackets
- Activation and deactivation
- Equilibrium laws
- Static equilibrium
- Evaluation of needed anchorage
- Role of occlusion in anchorage
- Short introduction to Tads
- Anchorage management and evaluation
- Differential anchorage
Lesson 4 - Anchorage. Tools for effective treatment
- The role of occlusion in anchorage
- Artificial occlusion
- Equilibrium in orthodontics
- Statically determinate mechanics
- Cantilevers: material, point of application, shape and design
- Simple use for uprighting, rotations and other movements
- Mechanics design
- Combined movements
The detailed program of the online lessons "Biomechanics in Orthodontics. Сlinical application":
Lesson 1 - Statically determinate mechanics. Basic principles
- Advantages of statically determinate mechanics
- Wire selection
- Cantilever Part 2
- Configuration and force direction
- Advanced topics: Major and Minor Configurations
- Composite Cantilevers
- 2 Vector Mechanics
- Combining activation on different planes
Lesson 2 - Skeletal ancharoge. Mechanics of working with microimplants
- Statically indeterminate mechanics
- The Six geometries of Burston
- Low vs. high geometries
- Continuous archwire and alignment
- Understanding the limits and inconsistencies of straight wire mechanics
- The use of segments with terminal activation
Lesson 3 - Geometry and alignment
- Work with geometry
- Using Minor bends
- UsingSteps and V Bends, Truncated V
- Alpha Beta springs. Introduction
- Alpha Beta springs use in different clinical situations (Molar/Canine uprighting, Anterior Torque)
- Third geometry of Burston
Lesson 4 - Combining braces with orthodontic tools
- Use of skeletal anchorage
- Аnchorage: definition
- Clinical use of Tads in Space Closure
- TADs clinical application
- TADs insertion
- Distalization
- Transversal Asymmetric Movements
- Open bite cases
- Reasons of failure
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