Digital Planning and Custom Orthodontic Treatment

Digital Planning and Custom Orthodontics offers a thorough overview of digital treatment planning as it relates to custom orthodontic appliances.  Focused on 3D imaging, digital planning of treatment, CAD/CAM fabrication of appliances, and monitoring during and after treatment, the book begins with a discussion of general digital treatment planning, and then goes on to describe workflows for a number of the custom systems available, including Invisalign, Incognito, the Harmony System, eBrace/eLock, and Sure Smile.  The book offers up–to–date, complete coverage of digital documentation for analyzing malocclusions and planning, designing, and fabricating orthodontic appliances. 

Written to emphasize practical information, chapters cover documenting and analyzing dentition, treatment planning, appliance design and fabrication, treatment monitoring and retention, aligners, custom lingual appliances, the dynamic motion of the jaw.  Digital Planning and Custom Orthodontics is a useful guide for orthodontics, maxillofacial surgeons, and practicing dentists. 

Key features 

Provides a complete guide to using digital treatment planning to improve patient results Covers 3D imaging, digital planning of treatment, CAD/CAM fabrication of appliances, and monitoring during and after treatment Introduces the general principles of digital treatment planning Offers detailed descriptions for the the main commercial systems on the market Presents clinically oriented information to aid in yielding predictable, reliable results

Chung How Kau, BDS, MScD, MBA, PhD, MOrth, FDSEdin, FDSGlas, FFDIre, FAMS, Cert (Ortho), is Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthodontics, University of Alabama–Birmingham School of Dentistry in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 

Hero K. Breuning, DDS, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. 

Orhan Tuncay, DMD, is Gerald D. Timmons Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at Temple University s Kornberg School of Dentistry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.