Digital Planning and Custom Orthodontic Treatment

Description

Digital Planning and Custom Orthodontic Treatment offers a thorough overview of digital treatment planning as it relates to custom orthodontic treatment.  

• Covers 3D imaging of thedentition and thefacewithintraoralscanners, CBCT machines, and 3D facial scanners
• Provides a complete guide to using digital treatmentplanning to improvethepredictability, efficiency, and efficacy of orthodontictreatment
• Discusses CAD/CAM fabrication of appliances and themonitoring of treatmentprogress and stability
• Offersdetaileddescriptionsforthemaincommercialsystemsonthemarket
• Presentsclinicallyorientedinformation to aid in yieldinghighquality and stableresults

Contents

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Documentation of thedentition
   Hero Breuning
2. Documentation of theface
   Hero Breuning
3. Analysis of digital dental documentation
   Hero Breuning and Chung How Kau
4. Orthodontictreatmentplanning
   Hero Breuning and Chung How Kau
5. CustomApplianceDesign
   Hero Breuning
6. Customappliancefabrication and transfer
   Hero Breuning
7. Monitoring of toothmovement
   Philip Salah and Hero Breuning
8. Customretentionafterorthodontictreatment
   Hero Breuning
9. TheInvisalignSystem
   Tuncay OC
10. Custom lingual appliances
    Neil Warshawsky
11. HarmonyApplianceSystems
    Chung How Kau
12. DynamicMotion Capture of theMandible
    SS He and Chung How Kau

Appendix

Author Information

Hero Breuning, DDS, PhD, was Assistant Professor of 3D Imaging at the Department of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Biology at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Chung H. Kau, BDS, MScD, MBA, PhD, MOrth, FAMS, FDSGlas, FFD (Ortho), FDSEdin, FAMS, FICD, is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Dentistry in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.