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NEW! Hemisection: Facilitating the Orthodontic Correction of Congenitally Missing Lower Second Premolars
Speaker: William Northway, DDS, MS

When lower second premolars are missing, there are numerous treatment alternatives. These are discussed as an easy and efficient way to affect space closure: hemisecting. This presentation deals with clinical advantages, biometric implications, alveolar management and response, biomechanics, anchorage and the impact on the face.

Educational objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to achieve the following:
  • Understand the advantages of space closure and how to make it easy.
  • Understand the biometric disadvantages that accompany agenesis of a lower second premolar.
  • Grasp the biological complications that can be avoided with attention to process and timing.
  • Save patients the cost and disadvantages of a prosthesis instead of a natural tooth.
  • Approach the problem with an appreciation for an aesthetic result, one that respects facial fullness while solving the partial edentulism.

Advanced Uses and Tips of the Forsus Appliance for the
Class II Malocclusion

Speaker:Robert Miller, DMD

This course will provide the clinician with tips to enhance the application of the Forsus FReD device. The information in this presentation covers a variety of clinical applications that go beyond the basic instruction video Unitek provides. Topics covered include tips on how to reduce breakage and improve patient comfort. This presentation will also introduce the X-bow appliance, a replacement for Herbst but has the benefit of shorter treatment times.

Educational objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to achieve the following:
  • Gain tips on how to reduce breakage of the Forsus FReD device.
  • Gain tips on how to reduce patient discomfort.
  • Apply the Forsus in a self activating, easy to delegate connection to the archwire.
  • Understand the Xbow, how it works and advantages over the Herbst appliance.
  • Treatment plan a Class II case with Forsus as the engine to correct the discrepancy in the best application for shorter treatment times and better long term results.

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