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Premolar extraction protocols Part 2 What you may not know…
Premolar extraction protocols Part 1 What you may not know…
IPR accuracy exposed! What this study reveals may surprise you
Does Trimline matter in Aligners?
Open bite + Aligners = Gold standard?
Do you know how to do IPR safely?
How well do aligners perform in closing premolar extraction spaces?
Extrusion movements with Clear Aligners
Fixed braces vs Clear Aligners
Bite Jump with Clear aligners
How should we close a Maxillary Diastema with Clear Aligners?
Gum recession during Aligner treatment - What should you do?
The importance of attachments during expansion
Dental alveolar expansion with clear aligners - tips
Understanding Aligner Limitations in Arch Expansion 📚🔍
Ghost IPR in Clear Aligners
Peg laterals and Clear Aligners
Clear Aligner Patient Tips
Expansion with Clear Aligners
Upper Sequential Distalisation amount
Difficult Movements with Clear Aligners

Open bite + Aligners = Gold standard?

Clear aligner may have an advantage in treating open bite cases than traditional braces?

Open bite cases an be dental, skeletal or both.

Treatment can either include habit correction, extrude/retract anterior teeth, intrude posterior teeth or surgery


Advent of TAD’s in combination with aligners allow for intrusion of the molars that can result in a forward and upward movement from mandibular autorotation.


Molar intrusion by aligners is mainly due to the “bite-block effect” caused by two layers of aligner material between teeth.


Author utilised a combination of incisor extrusion (pure and relative), molar intrusion and consequent counterclockwise rotation of the jaw to help close the anterior open bite.

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