COURSE CONTENTS:

10.00 General Discussion of any problems
Case consultation. Diagnosis & Treatment planning

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Terminology in the treatment

What is Dentofacial deformities?
Who needs the treatment? Indications Case selection
Treatment timing, Early treatment and Late Treatment
Dentoalveolar problems vs. Skeletal problems
Conventional orthodontics vs. Surgical orthodontics
Border line cases
Age Limitation and The Limitation of the treatment
Documentations. What do you need?
A. Differential diagnosis:
Cephalometric analysis: 4T in 4D
Surgical treatment objectives: Functional Analysis
Cephalometric prediction tracing (CPT)

Steiner vs. WITS-appraisal

9.45 B. Treatment planning

Presurgical orthodontics
Surgical brackets (Schwan surgical setup)
Fabrication of surgical arch wires
Case demonstration: Class II & Class III cases
C. Mechanotherapy
Compensation vs. Decompensation
Biomechanics and Reverse-mechanics
Non-extraction vs. Extraction therapy

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Current surgical concepts

Correction of the transverse dimension
Surgical orthodontic maxillary expansion
Correction of the vertical and sagittal dimensions

15.30 Case demonstration: Single and two jaw procedures

Adjunct procedures

9.45 4 keys for decision making prior to the operation

• Fabrication of the surgical splints
• The two splint technique
• CR registration, wax-bit construction
• Demonstration: The use of Face bow transfer and semi-adjustable
  • articulator (SAM) and Model surgery
  • Case demonstration
  • Open-bite cases
  • Deep-bite and how to increase the vertical dimension
  • Short class II elastics
  • Postsurgical orthodontics
  • Postsurgical gymnastics

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 RELAPSE AND POSTTREATMENT CHANGES

Why and When does it occur?
HOW TO PREVENT RELAPSE?
How to obtain long-term stability?

15.30 Class finish

What to bring along?

Your case documents (surgical cases only)
Lateral cephalograms of your cases
Tracing papers, Tracing kits
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