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This comprehensive guide on the innovative Tip-Edge appliance introduces the concept of differential tooth movement into what is essentially a straight-wire bracket system. Prepared by a world-renowned expert, the second edition of this highly illustrated atlas explains the Tip-Edge technique from f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parkhouse, Richard
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Britton, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh ; New York : Mosby/Elsevier, ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Orthodontics.
Orthodontic Brackets
Orthodontics, Corrective > methods
Orthodontie.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Orthodontics
Festsitzendes Behandlungsgerät > Zahnmedizin
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Differential tooth movement. Dynamics of Tip-Edge. Auxiliaries. Treatment stages. Bonding and setting up. Stage 1. Setting up Stage 1. Stage 1 checks. "Power tipping" and the Protraction Arch. Stage 2. Setting up Stage 2. Stage 2 checks. Stage 3: how it works. Stage 3 archwires. Stage 3: setting the torque. Stage 3: threading the deep tunnels. Stage 3: fitting the archwires (and Side-Winders). Stage 3: checks. Precision finishing. The non-compliant patient. In conclusion. Tip-Edge Treatment sequence. Further reading.
  • Differential tooth movement
  • Dynamics of tip-edge
  • Auxiliaries
  • Treatment stages
  • Bonding and setting up
  • Stage I
  • Setting up stage I
  • Stage I checks
  • "Power tipping" and the protraction arch
  • Stage II
  • Setting up stage II
  • Stage II checks.
  • Stage III : how it works
  • Stage III archwires
  • Stage III : setting the torque
  • Stage III : threading the deep tunnels
  • Stage III : fitting the archwires (and side-winders)
  • Stage III checks
  • Precision finishing
  • The non-compliant patient.