Digital Orthodontics with Orthodontic Aligners – Cleartek System

Digital Orthodontics with Orthodontic Aligners – Cleartek System

Vol. 1 – Number 1 – 2021

Case report

Page 8-16
Digital Orthodontics with Orthodontic Aligners – Cleartek System

Ernesto D. Rodrigues¹
Bárbara Machado e Melo²

ABSTRACT
Currently, most orthodontic patients would like to be treated with transparent aligners, preferring these to metal or aesthetic brackets. So it becomes essential to the orthodontist to master the technique from the initial phases to the conduction of the cases. Orthodontic treatment with aligners has a number of advantages compared to conventional ones, because it is more discreet, aesthetic, comfortable, allow easier hygiene and there is no food restriction. However, some disadvantages appear, such as the need of patient cooperation and some biomechanical limitations. Some systems have excel out in the market for offering dentists services of digital planning and production of orthodontic aligners, allowing them to be able to lead in a more direct form and with more autonomy their treatments with aligners. So the purpose of this article is to present in a simplified way Cleartek aligners system and some clinical cases and thus to provide subsidies for the orthodontist that intends to use them, from the planning to the clinical follow-up and completion of the treated cases.

Descriptors: Orthodontic aligners, 3D printer, aesthetic Orthodontics.

¹ Professor of the Postgraduate Course of the Faculdade SL Mandic – BH-MG.
² Collaborating Professor of the Post-Graduation Course of the Faculdade SL Mandic – BH-MG.

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