On March 1st, Dr. Romina Vignolo Lobato, official Angel Aligner speaker, will give at the EAS Congress, the lecture “How mandibular advancement is changing the rules of the game in the treatment of Class II in children”, focused on early treatment with Angel Aligner.
Class II malocclusion is one of the most common skeletal disharmonies in the Caucasian population with a high prevalence of mandibular retrusion, approximately 80% of cases. It is a complex clinical situation that not only involves aesthetic problems, or occlusion of the teeth in the sagittal plane, but is also associated with various conditions that require our attention, such as maxillary transverse relationship, mouth breathing, sleep apnoea, atypical swallowing, anomalies of the visual apparatus and poor oral habits or signs and symptoms of TMJ disorder.
It is important to study and evaluate the patient’s optimal timing of treatment to maximise treatment efficacy. Scientific evidence shows that the optimal time is the patient’s pubertal growth spurt, a time that until now we have been able to access with the different aligner protocols. The A6 protocol can be used from the primary dentition, which allows us to take advantage of the first growth peak between 5 and 7 years of age, when the 1st permanent molars erupt and we can create a new correct occlusal plane that favours mandibular movements and corrects the anteroposterior and vertical dynamics, opening a new path in the early correction of malocclusions.
