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DSD Aligners

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Daniel Ramos

Are you ready to step beyond traditional orthodontics and embrace the future of comprehensive smile design? This DSD Aligners course is not just another lecture on plastic; it is a clinical paradigm shift toward a facially, airway, and TMJ-driven philosophy. You will learn to look beyond merely moving teeth into a Class I occlusion, focusing instead on overall health, tongue space, and facial harmony. Guided by global experts, you will master the true biomechanics of clear aligners, discovering the secrets of attachment selection, sequential movement staging, and mandatory overcorrection rules to achieve unprecedented predictability in even the most challenging malocclusions. More importantly, you will learn how to expand the clinical limits of aligners through comprehensive interdisciplinary digital planning. This includes seamlessly integrating adjunct therapies like skeletal anchorage (TADs), surgically facilitated orthodontic treatment (SFOT), high-frequency vibration, and maxillary expansion (MARPE/DOME), alongside restorative and orthognathic surgical workflows. By making all your strategic mistakes on the computer first, and mastering emotional dentistry through motivational mock-ups, you will dramatically elevate your case acceptance. Take the definitive step, master predictable digital technology, and transform your patients into the biggest fans of your dental practice.

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Curriculum

9 modules · 67 lessons
1. Facially & Airway Driven Digital Orthodontics: New Standards for better Diagnosis and Treatment Planning7 lessons
1. 1. IntroPreview
2. 2. Why DSD aligners
3. 3. Facially & Airway Driven Digital Orthodontics: New Foundation for better Diagnosis and Treatment
4. 4. DSD Documentation
5. 5. Step 1- Facial Analysis - Defining the Ideal Upper Smile Design
6. 6. Step 2 - DSD Airway Analysis
7. 7. Step 3 - Functional Analysis
I. How to Perform Better, Faster and more Predictable Ortho Treatments with Aligners Biomechanics Resources with Aligners3 lessons
8. 1. Attachments
9. 2. Staging
10. 3. Auxiliary Biomechanics Resources (Cuts, Elastics, Bite Ramps, Table Tops, Software AI)
II. Clinical Workflow with Aligners5 lessons
11. 4. First Clinical Appointment
12. 5. Treatment Monitoring
13. 6. Attachment removal
14. 7. Retention and Control
15. 8. Tracking Troubleshooting
III. Tips to improve aligners predictability10 lessons
16. 9. Improving aligners predictability
17. 10. Over-correction
18. 11. Attachment Selection
19. 12. Staging Selection
20. 13. Refinement
21. 14. Root & Bone Relationship
22. 15. Understanding the Limits of Aligners…and how to overcome them
23. 16. Tooth wear and orthodontics - Andrea Shepperson
24. 17. Attachments - Guilherme Thiesen
25. 18. Mastering the aligner software - Matthias Peper
IV. Treatment Protocols Aligners10 lessons
26. 19. Treating cases with diastema
27. 20. Treating cases with crowding
28. 21. Expansion Protocols with Aligners
29. 22. Treating cases with Open-Bite
30. 23. Treating cases with Deep-Bite
31. 24. Treating cases with Class II
32. 25. Treating cases with Class III
33. 26. Cuspid traction with Aligners - Martin Pedernera
34. 27. Aligners Strategies - Pedro Costa Monteiro
35. 28. Remote Monitoring and Orthodontics - Paolo Manzo
I. How to Expand the Limits of Aligners - Expanding the limits of Aligners9 lessons
36. 1. Skeletal Anchorage and Aligners
37. 2. Temporary Anchorage Device (TAD)
38. 3. Ortho & Implants
39. 4. TAD Clinical case
40. 5. Distraction Osteogenics Maxillary Expansion
41. 6. Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Therapy and Aligners
42. 7. Orthognathic cases with Aligners
43. 8. Skeletal Anchorage and Aligners - Victor Guerrero
44. 9. The benefits of HFV to Aligner Therapy
4. Interdisciplinary Planning and the role of Orthodontics8 lessons
45. 1. The case acceptance strategy
46. 2. DSD Ortho planning + TPS
47. 3. DSD & Perio
48. 4. DSD & Partial Implant
49. 5. DSD & Indirect Restorations
50. 6. DSD & Direct restoration
51. 7. Motivations Mock-Up and Orthodontics - Luken de Arbeloa
52. 8. Restorative workflow - Angelo Raphael
5. Important Topics Review3 lessons
53. 1. DSD Aligners Course Important Topics Review DIAGNOSTIC
54. 2. DSD Aligners Course Important Topics Review PLANNING
55. 3. DSD Aligners Course Important Topics Review CLINICAL
6. Clinical tips12 lessons
56. 1. 1st Appointment - Introduction
57. 2. Stripping explanation
58. 3. What is in the box
59. 4. HFV (High Frequency Vibration) benefits
60. 5. Polishing tips
61. 6. Invisalign template with patient
62. 7. Preparation to bond the attachments
63. 8. Template insertion and how to photopolimerize the attachments
64. 9. How to remove the template
65. 10. How to polish the attachment removing the excess
66. 11. How to do IPRs using a diamond strip
67. 12. Demonstrate the insertion of Aligner number 1

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  • DSD Aligners Workbook

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