Elastics for Invisalign – The Long and Short of it [STRAIGHTPRIL] – PDP070

As you get more experienced with clear aligner therapy you learn a universal truth about those pesky lateral incisors that will refuse to extrude! I am joined by Dr Robin Bethell from Aligner Nation to help us learn more about the use of Elastics as auxiliaries for Clear Aligner protocols. https://youtu.be/mOADKbT1uyo Dr Robin Bethell might surprise you! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: The Bethell IPR Technique! Click Here for the Video of how Dr Bethell uses the bur for IPR Interestingly, Dr Robin Bethell has not used intermaxillary elastics for over 3 years. He primarily uses them for vertical movements. I personally have used them extruding lateral incisors, which works very well. Here is the video to share how to extrude lateral incisors with elastics: https://youtu.be/eAsbJBvYA2I 1/8 inch and 3.5 Oz would be ideal We also discussed: * Common causes of Posterior Open Bites during aligner treatment* How to manage Posterior Open Bites (the key is diagnosis)* The role elastics play in clear aligner treatment* Dr Bethell's views on GDP Orthodontics Here is the link to the evidence base Dr Bethell referred to Be sure to follow Robin Bethell on Insta and check out @protrusivedental for more if you enjoyed this, you will also like Comprehensive vs Compromised Orthodontics as part of the Straightpril series! Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: Over the years i've realized what is best for me to do and what isn't. I think that a lot of general dentists get in this and because invisalign looks like magic. It truly like it's amazing that plastic can do this. They get in over their heads a little bit and i can see why some orthodontics get upset... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati, I am Jaz Gulati. And welcome to another episode in this orthodontic month. This episode is focused on Invisalign and elastics. Like one of my most popular episodes before was IPR, like getting into IPR and the nuances of that. And I feel that one of the biggest pain areas of dentists who are getting started with aligner treatment or even experience with aligner treatment is using elastics. Now whether it's to extrude lateral incisors, which is the way that I learned to use elastic with aligners, or to use them in intermaxillary. So from across the arch, so for example, class two or class three elastics, we're going to cover that with someone really cool. His name is Dr. Robin Bethell. He's based in the US. He runs the Facebook group aligner nation, which is just phenomenal. You guys should totally follow it if you're not part of that already. And I'm going to ask him the nitty gritty details. Now, this episode is an amalgamation or a marriage of part one and part two, because when we first record, it was going really well.