Welcome to our new website and thanks for checking in. Throughout the past 30 years, in addition to managing my practice in San Diego, California, I have enjoyed providing quality continuing orthodontic education to orthodontists throughout the world. This website will allow orthodontists to more easily join in this educational process by accessing information on our teaching activities (our two year postgraduate course, our local short in-office courses, and our off-site domestic and international courses). Those who access will also be able to analyze periodic case reports, and review frequently …
Read the full story »COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course offers an in-depth look at the topics facing today’s orthodontists,
including interesting case presentations from the course titles listed below:
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• Orthodontic Treatment Mechanics and the Pre-adjusted Appliance
• Inter-Arch Treatment Mechanics Part I – Class II Treatment
• Inter-Arch Treatment Mechanics Part II – Class III and Asymmetrical Treatment
• Management of the Dentition
• Occlusion and the TMJ in Orthodontics
• Surgical-Orthodontic Treatment
• Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, and Treatment Mechanics
This course also presents an overview of Dr. McLaughlin’s treatment philosophy, and stage-by-stage reviews of challenging cases that demonstrate the renowned versatility of …
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Saint Louis University by Opal OrthodonticsAugust 10 – 11, 2010
This course describes the management and correction of specific dental problems involving each tooth. Multiple issues related to the incisors, with case examples, are presented. The mechanics of cuspid movement is described, as well as the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of impacted cuspids. The bicuspid extraction verses non-extraction issue is reviewed in detail. First and second molars are discussed relative to anchorage control, distalization, and vertical control. This course closely coincides with the material covered in …
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Finishing consists of managing a number of dental and skeletal factors in the sagittal, vertical and traverse dimensions. Two critical factors that become very important at the end of treatment are bracket placement and the features built in to the pre-adjusted appliance. Pre-adjusted brackets are designed based on values measured at the center of the clinical crown (Andrews). While there are some modifications to this location, in most cases this is the ideal position. After initial placement and leveling, bracket position is greatly enhanced by …
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The relationship between the lower lateral incisors and the lower canines is a difficult relationship to correct. This is because in many cases the lower incisors are flared forward and the lower canines are inclined lingually due to the presence of overbite. A significant amount of over-correction from the Andrews’ norms in both the torque and in-out dimension is helpful in properly aligning teeth in these areas.
The Andrews’ norms for lower incisor torque is -1o. Placing -6o of torque in the lower incisors helps to upright these teeth. This brings …
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I recently attended the Biennial Meeting of the Angle Society in San Antonio, sponsored by Angle Southwest. Jimmy Boley and his gang did a wonderful job for this meeting. Two lectures in particular stood out for me on the subject of miniscrews and miniplates. For the Memorial Lecture, Dr. Peter Buschang and Dr. Roberto Carrillo teamed up on the subject of “Orthopedic changes of growing, hyperdivergent, retrognatic patients using miniscrew implants.” They demonstrated that the well known principle of limiting vertical eruption of the dentition on such cases can be …
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