This guide organises possible treatment options for a crowding diagnosis. The document is a treatment planning tool to assist you assist how to best treat patients. Treatments are graded by complexity, ranked by the orthodontic technique required, as a guide to the efficacy of treatment and enable providers to select cases that best matches their ability to apply advanced techniques. In this regard, it is particularly useful for dentists who are just beginning to provide clear aligner treatment.
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Proligner experience treatment grading:
Novice (0-15 cases)
Experienced (16-50 cases)
Advanced (>50 cases)
Crowding
Mild
Expansion / Proclination / IPR Novice (0-15 cases)
Moderate
Expansion / Proclination / IPR Novice (0-15 cases)
Lower incisor extraction Experienced (16-50 cases)
Distalisation Experienced (16-50 cases)
Severe
Expansion/Proclination/IPR Novice (0-15 cases)
Lower incisor extraction Experienced (16-50 cases)
Distalisation Experienced (16-50 cases)
Bicuspid extraction with a combination treatment Advanced (>50 cases)
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