Key information: Temporary Anchorage Device, dental intrusion
Skeletal anchorage extends the range of orthodontic anchorage possibilities with Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs), that can provide absolute anchorage for a short period of time.
TADs are now very often used in clinical orthodontic treatment for direct or indirect anchorage, with different objectives: expansion, open bite or class III correction, gummy smile treatment, preprosthetic treatment, full arches distalization/mesialization or retrusion of the upper incisors, etc.; they are commercially available in the screw diameter range of 1.2 – 2.7 mm and in length varying from 4 to 12 mm. The most common site for their placement is the interradicular bone between the teeth, but also extraradicular in palatal bone, infrazygomatic crest and mandibular buccal shelf, with less risk of damaging rooth and interfering with mesiodistal movement of teeth or groups of teeth and also with low failure percentage, if compared to the conventional miniimplants.
In this context, some clinical cases will be presented, showing different use of TADs in gummy smile and some preprosthetic treatments involving dental intrusions. The cases were treated successfully, functional and also aesthetic, showing that nowadays the TADs are the best useful tool in the modern practical orthodontics.
Cristina Nuca (Romania)
DDS, PhD
Biography
Born in 1968 in Constanta, she graduated the mathematics-informatics high school in 1986 and the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Tg.Mures, in 1993. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a resident doctor in orthodontics and dento-facial orthopedics in Bucharest (after the national competition). In 1997 she became specialist and in 2001 – primary care physician in orthodontics. From 2003 she is a doctor in medical sciences after being pHD student in Tg.Mures University between 1999 and 2003. In 1998 she became assistant professor in orthodontics in Ovidius University of Constanta, Faculty of Dentistry, then lecturer and associated professor in the same university, in preventive dentistry. She also got it competences in dental radiology and dental implantology, and also a master degree in medical sciences. Now she is lecturer in orthodontics and dento-facial orthopedics in Ovidius University from Constanta, Faculty of Dentistry.
She is author and co-author of dozens of specialty articles and also of books and courses for students. She was member and also director of some research university projects, she presented lectures and scientific communications at numerous national and international specialized scientific events and she attended the best and most advanced training international courses in orthodontics.
All sessions by Cristina Nuca (Romania)
The use of TADs for dental instrusions
Prezentare Cristina Nuca (Romania) Palas Congress Hall, Sala CHOPIN
