Seminare Skelettale Verankerung

TAD Biomechanics

No other orthodontic miniscrew offers the versatility that Dentaurum’s tomas^® Pin presents. In this lecture you will learn what options are available to you and how to best utilize them to the benefit of your patients.

tomas^® Case Discussions Part 1

A presentation of orthodontic cases treated with the tomas^® Pin. This lecture will draw from material presented in the previous lecture and highlight successful outcomes with the tomas^® Pin, but also failures and limitations of skeletal anchorage.

Tinkering with TADs!
Unique Mechanics with TADs to Achieve Complex Clinical Results

As dentists and orthodontists, we are inherently tinkerers. Since the inception of TAD mechanics, orthodontists have been tinkering with skeletal anchorage to achieve results not attainable with orthodontic therapy alone, or to achieve more efficient treatment than with only brackets and wires. As TAD technique armamentarium has expanded, the complexities of cases that can be treated and cases treatable without orthographic surgery have dramatically increased. This lecture will introduce attendees to a tinkerer’s handbook of unique TAD mechanics to treat extremely challenging cases.

The use of skeletal anchorage for open bite correction, the correction of severe crossbites in non-growing patients and difficult Class II and Class III mechanics with TADs will be presented. Techniques for correcting cases previously only fully treatable with orthographic surgery will be demonstrated. Techniques for palatal expansion with bone-borne skeletal expanders and their benefits will also be presented. Comparisons of skeletal only palatal expanders and tooth borne TAD expanders will be shown. Results and long-term outcomes of surgical treatment and relapse and TAD treatment and relapse will also be compared.
Retention modalities including techniques for using TADs with retainers to maintain open bite correction will also be shown.

The outcome of this lecture will be to not only show very unique treatments of challenging cases, but also work to inspire attendees to tinker with TAD treatment modalities to improve the outcomes of complex cases.