Atlas of Aligner Treatment and Planning - A Case-Based Approach

Learn how to effectively integrate aligner treatment into your practice! Atlas of Aligner Treatment and Planning: A Case-Based Approach offers a revolutionary, step-by-step, example-based approach to aligner treatment for orthodontists and general dentists. Featuring approximately 3,300 full-color clinical photographs, radiographs, and illustrations, this resource addresses the full scope of patient care - from diagnostics and treatment planning to virtual tool utilization and overcoming challenges - to prepare you for real-life scenarios in aligner orthodontics.

• Comprehensive coverage presents case-based examples of the potential challenges you may face when selecting an aligner treatment option.
• Logical, atlas-style format addresses each phase of treatment, starting with the pretreatment workup, continuing through the treatment sequence, and ending with final results and follow-up observations.
• About 3,300 clinical photographs, radiographs, and illustrations support key concepts and demonstrate real-life examples of patient scenarios.
• International author team includes leading experts in the field of aligner orthodontics.
• Enhanced ebook version, included with every new print purchase, features e-only content, plus access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

List of contents

1. Exploring Aligner Biomechanics: Current Status and Future Perspectives
2. Advancements in Direct 3D-Printed Shape Memory Aligners: Current Innovations and Future Directions

Section I: Thermoformed Aligners
Non-Extraction Treatment and Aligners
3. Non-Extraction Bimaxillary Protrusion with Reverse Smile Line
4. Non-Extraction Treatment of Class II Subdivision, Overjet
5. Combining Herbst Appliance and Aligners in an Adolescent Patient
6. Impacted Lower Bilateral Second Premolars and Molar Crossbite Treated with Clear Aligners
7. Non-Extraction with Crowding
8. Non-Extraction and Uprighting of Tipped Molars
9. Non-Extraction Class III Camouflage Treatment in an Adolescent Patient

Management of Deep Bites
10. Class II Division 2 with Deep Bite in an Adolescent Patient - Case 1
11. Class II Division 2 and Deep Bite in an Adolescent Patient - Case 2
12. Class II Division 2 with Deep Bite and Blocked Canine
13. Treatment of Unilateral Class II with Deep Bite with In-House Aligners
14. Deep Bite and Aligners
15. Interdisciplinary Patient with Severe Deep Bite
16. Class II Division 2 with Deep Bite
17. Maxillary Dentoalveolar Intrusion via Clear Aligner Therapy: An Orthodontic-Periodontal Approach

Management of Open Bites
18. Open Bite: Functional Therapy Followed by Aligners in an Adolescent Patient
19. Maxillary Protrusion and Open Bite
20. Severe Open Bite with High Mandibular Angle
21. Complex Skeletal Open Bite Treated with Dento-Alveolar Solution
22. Corticotomy-Assisted Clear Aligner Treatment with Open Bite
23. Open Bite Midfacial Expansion with MSE

Management of Extraction
24. Biomechanics of Closing Extraction Space
25. Bimaxillary Protrusion and Extraction of First Premolars
26. Severe Crowding and Extraction of Four Premolars and Novel Staging Protocol
27. Maxillary Protrusion with Crowding Treated with Extractions
28. First Premolar Extraction Treatment with Clear Aligners
29. Clear Aligners and Auxiliaries in a Young Adult Patient Treated with 4 Bicuspids Extraction

Dental Asymmetries and Aligners
30. Mandibular Asymmetry Treated with Aligners and TAD
31. Class II and Dental Asymmetry
32. Class II with Maxillary Constriction and Crowding

Class III Malocclusion
33. Treatment of a Class III Subdivision
34. Class III Malocclusion Treated with Aligners
35. Class III Malocclusion with Anterior Crossbite and Agenesis of 12
36. Class III Mandibular Extraction: Hybrid Treatment, Conventional Lower Arch, Aligner Upper Arch

Temporary Anchorage Devices with Aligners
37. Aligners and Palatal TADs
38. Aligners and TADs to Treat an Open Bite in an Adolescent Patient
39. Aligners and TADs for Managing Impacted Incisor and Premolar
40. Class II with Deep Bite and Palatal TADs
41. Bimaxillary Protrusion Treated with Premolar Extractions Assisted with TADs
42. Second Premolar Extraction and Mini-Screw-Anchored Correction of Midline Discrepancy

Orthognathic Surgery and Aligners
43. Class III and Open Bite Treatment with Surgery First and Aligners
44. Mandibular Asymmetry Treated with Surgery First and Aligners
45. Gummy Smile Orthognatic Surgery and Aligners
46. Class II Division 1 Mandibular Retrognathism Treated with Surgical Mandibular Advancement
47. Skeletal Class III Treated with Surgery First and Aligners
48. Class II Large Overjet and Open Bite Treated with Orthognatic Surgery and Aligners

Section II: Direct Printed Shape Memory Aligners
49. Managing Simple Problems with Direct Printed Aligners
50. Class I Crowding
51. Lateral Expansion of the Upper and Lower Dentition to Improve Crowding in the Anterior Teeth Without Tooth Extraction
52. 3D-Printed Shape Memory Aligners to Rescue Fixed Retainer Failure
53. Managing Crowding with Lower Incisor Extraction
54. Upper Incisors Intrusion with 3D-Printed Aligners and TADs
55. Retruded Mandible and Clear Aligner Treatment in Growing Patients
56. A Hybrid Approach for Class II Malocclusions in Growing Patients
57. Class I Malocclusion with Crowding Solved with DPAs
58. Hybrid Aligner Treatment: TADs, Mesial Slider, Brackets, and Direct Printed Aligners

About the author

Dr. Ravindra Nanda is a professor and Head of the Department of Craniofacial Sciences and Chair of the Division of Orthodontics at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. He is part of the founding faculty of School of Dental Medicine and has been at the University of Connecticut since 1972 where he also holds an Alumni Chair in the Orthodontics Division. He is an innovator of various appliances in orthodontics. His research and clinical interests include adolescent and adult orthodontics, the biology of tooth mobility, craniofacial orthopedics, biomechanics, and developing efficient mechanics to deliver orthodontic care.Dr. Tommaso Castroflorio is a researcher and aggregate professor of the Chair of Orthodontics and of the postgraduate Specialization School in Orthodontics at the University of Torino Dental School. His research interests are focused on aligner orthodontics, biology of orthodontic tooth movement and masticatory muscles physiology. He is the President elect of the European Aligner SocietyDr. Francesco Garino is an orthodontist who pioneered aligner orthodontics in Europe. He practices orthodontics in his office located in Torino. He contributed to several clinical trials conducted to develop materials and protocols in aligner orthodontics. He has lectured extensively in Italy and abroad about aligner orthodontics and digital innovations in orthodontics. He is the scientific chairman of the European Aligner Society.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tommaso Castroflorio (Editor), Francesco Garino (Editor), Nanda Ravindra (Editor), Kenji Ojima (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.01.2026
• EAN: 9780443116087
• ISBN: 978-0-443-11608-7
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Dentistry; dentistry, MEDICAL / Dentistry / Orthodontics, Dentistry and related oral medicines