Category: Clinical Tips

Clinical Tips

How Digital Workflows Are Transforming Bracket Treatment

Advances in planning software, bonding systems, and monitoring platforms are redefining the bracket experience for both orthodontists and patients.

Clinical Tips

Plan Forward Reports Results from Dental Membership Plans

Plan Forward reported increases in patient visits, production, and treatment acceptance rates among DSOs using its membership plans.

Clinical Tips

Evaluating the Damon Ultima System’s New Passive Self-Ligating Bracket and Wire Design

With a reengineered parallelogram slot shape for the bracket and redesign of the cross-sectional geometry of the traditional rectangular wire, the Damon Ultima System demonstrates more predictable first-order control earlier in treatment.

Aligner Treatment

The Clear Difference: Achieving Fewer Refinements with Aligners

An orthodontist shares the results of his in-office comparison of two aligner brands to find which achieved more predictable results, fewer refinements, and better patient satisfaction.

Brackets and Wires

The InBrace System: Orthodontic Treatment on Autopilot

Why do consumers who would benefit from orthodontic treatment postpone their treatment—especially when they can afford it?

Digital Workflow

EasyRx Partners with 3DISC on New Digital Workflow

A collaboration between EasyRx and 3DISC brings Heron and OVO IOS imaging technology into the EasyRX digital workflow.

Patient Hygiene

Adults Focus On Oral Care at Home to Prevent Costly Dental Visits

A majority of adults kept up with their oral hygiene at home motivated to prevent costly dental issues, says a Delta Dental report.

Retention

Innovation Comes to Retention

For father-son orthodontists John B. Benton, Jr, DDS, and J. Barry Benton, DMD, a new permanent bonded lingual retainer fits nicely into their practice’s commitment to an innovative and customized patient experience

Sleep Disordered Breathing

ADA Approves Sleep Apnea CDT Code Changes

The ADA Code Maintenance Committee approved four new codes that clarify the role of dentistry in treating sleep apnea.