Online course
Orthodontic protocols by Raffaele Spena
by Dr. Raffaele Spena

  • Dr. Raffaele Spena
  • 6 lectures
  • Duration:
    8 hours 14 minutes
  • Access to the course is not limited in time
You can buy the entire course now at the new price - $19, instead of the old one - $310
Course program
Orthodontic protocols by Raffaele Spena
6 online lectures

Raffaele Spena online course consists of 6 webinars, during which you will learn:

– The possibilities of the active self-ligating appliance
– The rationale for alveolar corticotomy: detailed protocol
– Non-extraction and extraction treatment of Class 2
– The ectopic teeth: impaction, transpositions, and transmigrations.

The doctor will review the most important aspects of treatment:
– Diagnostics and differential diagnostics
– Step-by-step planning
– Devices and methods of their use
– Finishing stages of treatment.

You will learn:

Treatment methods:
Self-ligating braces
Minimally invasive surgery for orthodontics
Orthodontics with tooth extraction
Orthodontics without tooth extraction
Corticotomy

Pathologies:
Tooth impaction
Tooth transposition

General questions:
Biomechanics in orthodontics
Teeth movements

Bite:
Class II (skeletal and dental alveolar forms)

Directed regeneration:
Guided bone regeneration
Treatment with active self-ligating appliance
1 h 38 min
Alveolar corticotomy: a different perspective
1 h 28 min
Non-extraction treatment of Class 2
1 h 23 min
Extraction treatment of Class 2
1 h 16 min
The ectopic teeth treatment: impaction
1 h 12 min
The ectopic teeth treatment: transpositions and transmigrations
1 h 15 min
  • 6
    lessons
  • -94%
    discount
  • $291
    savings
You can buy the entire course now at the new price - $19, instead of the old one - $310
The full course program
Treatment with active self-ligating appliance
Here you can watch a fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Straight wire technique. Short review
– The possibilities of the active SLB
– Efficiency of active self-ligating appliance
– Incisors and canines control
– The CCO System (Complete Clinical Orthodontics)
– The reasons for new prescriptions for active SLB
– Some important tips for correct brackets positioning
– The need for a proper sequence of archwire
– When properly apply inter-arch forces
– When properly apply intra-arch forces
– The importance of a good finishing
– Clinical cases.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
Alveolar corticotomy: a different perspective
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Regional acceleration phenomenon
– Alveolar corticotomy
– The rationale for alveolar corticotomy
– The open flap surgery
– The flapless surgery
– The grafting that may be associated to corticotomy
– The orthodontic management of the cases
– When to use corticotomy
– Clinical cases.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
Non-extraction treatment of Class 2
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
– Plan a non-extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
– How to diagnose and treat the associated transverse problems
– How to distalize upper molars
– How to manage the overjet and the overbite
– How to use intra-arch elastics
– How to use fixed intra-arch appliances
– How to finalize cases.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
Extraction treatment of Class 2
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Indication for extraction treatment of Class 2
– Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
– Plan an extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
– How to decide which teeth extract
– Space management
– How to manage space closure
– How to manage anchorages
– How to control torque
– How to finalize cases.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
The ectopic teeth treatment: impaction
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Interoceptive treatment
– Diagnosis of ectopically erupting teeth
– Prevention of impaction
– Biomechanics in orthodontic treatment of ectopia
– How to surgically manage the impacted teeth
– How to orthodontically manage the impacted teeth
– How to control the anchorages
– How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
– Clinical cases of the most common impactions.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
The ectopic teeth treatment: transpositions and transmigrations
Here you can watch a five-minute fragment of the lesson.
Program:
– Diagnosis of complete and incomplete transpositions
– Treatment of complete and incomplete transpositions
– Early treatment and interception of transposition
– How to surgically manage the transposed teeth
– How to orthodontically manage the transposed teeth
– How to control the anchorages
– How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
– Clinical cases of the most common transpositions
– Cases with canine transmigration.

Recommended for: Orthodontists.
Special offer
Raffaele Spena
Orthodontic protocols by Raffaele Spena
6 lessons • 8 h 14 min
Access to the course is unlimited in time!
Raffaele Spena
Dr.
DDS at the University of Napoli in 1984. Specialty in Orthodontics at University of Pennsylvania in 1988.
Specialty in Orthodontics at University of Ferrara in 2003.
Speaker at Italian and International courses and meetings.
Author of several publications on Italian and International journals. Reviewer for Italian and International Journals.
Leader in Italy and Europe for the CCO System.
Atlas book “Il trattamento senza estrazioni” in 1998.
Atlas book “Nonextraction Treatment” in 2002.
Coauthor chapter `Nonextraction Treatment` in `Orthodontics – Current principles and techniques` ed. T.M.Graber e R.M.Vanarsdall in 2000.
Updated chapters in 2005, 2011 and 2016 editions of same book. Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor at University of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 2000.
Professore a contratto Università di Parma from 1996 to 2000. Professore a contratto Università di Ferrara since 2003. Active member of AIDO (Italian Accademy of Orthodontics), AAO, SIDO, WFO and EOS.
Scientific secretary of AIDO in 2008-2009.
President of AIDO in 2010. Active Member of Angle Society of Europe (ASE) since 2005. Program Chair of ASE in 2015.
Italian Board of Orthodontics in 2001 and European Board of Orthodontics in 2008. Clinical private office in Napoli.