Restorative Driven Orthodontics: 2-Day Hands-on Workshop with Salvatore Lotardo

This 2-day course with Salvatore Lotardo will provide you with the knowledge to evaluate cases that can benefit from integrating orthodontics into your smile design and restorative treatment planning.

The hands-on portion of the course will teach you bracket placement, wire progressions, mechanics, and the skillset needed to accomplish key tooth movements in your practice immediately.

During the course, you will learn:

– Essential orthodontic principles to better understand diagnostics, treatment planning, and prognoses, enabling effective patient communication and interdisciplinary care
– How to evaluate, select, and treat cases that would benefit from adjunctive orthodontics to ensure optimized outcomes
– A simplified diagnostic system that combines orthodontic and esthetic design protocols
– The Straight Wire Appliance concept and its practical applicability
– How to place brackets, wires, and auxiliaries to begin treating limited fixed orthodontic cases
– How combining fixed (braces) and removable (aligner) treatments can lead to more predictable and profitable results
– Proper record-taking techniques for diagnostics, including photography methods to enhance practice marketing
– Retention strategies, including the fabrication of bonded fixed lingual retainers.

NOTES:

1) Registration fee includes breakfast and lunch

2) Maximum number of participants: up to 10 people

3) What to bring: Loupes recommended, laptop optional.

PROGRAM

Key Topics:
– Fixed appliance therapy vs. aligners: when and why
– Smile design: step-by-step protocols
– Diagnosis and treatment planning
– Orthodontic vs. restorative metrics
– Straight wire appliance: concepts and mechanics of tooth movement
– Bracket and wire sequence.

Case Type Overview:
– Pre-prosthetic orthodontic setup cases
– Leveling and alignment
– Gingival margin correction
– Intrusion of supra-erupted teeth
– Extrusion to optimize hard and soft tissues
– Arsthetic and stable space closure
– Peg-shaped and missing laterals
– Canine substitution
– Creating space for missing lateral incisors.