Modern idea of case-driven orthodontics refers to an approach in treatment that emphasizes tailoring the planning to the specific needs and characteristics of each individual patient. This approach recognizes that each person is unique, customizing the orthodontic treatment to address their particular dental, skeletal, and soft tissue features.
A comprehensive diagnosis is crucial in case-driven orthodontics, particularly in distalization or extractive cases. Distalization, as known, refers to the movement of teeth distally, a crucial aspect when addressing issues such as crowding, protrusion, or malocclusions; the same issues are fundamental in the selection of extractive cases and when teeth extractions are commonly recommended.
Questions such as: distalize or extract? Maximum anchorage or loss of anchorage? TADs or not? Those that may seem like simple questions often hide the pitfalls of orthodontics.
Therefore, case-driven orthodontics is a way of thinking, a dictum that experience allows us to replicate cases with similar efforts and results. The paradox that follows is simple: case-driven orthodontics is treatment flexibility within a rigid framework.
Alberto Caprioglio (Italy)
Professor
Biography
Prof. Caprioglio is Full Professor and Chairman of Orthodontics at the University of Milan. In the past he has been Associate Professor and then Chairman of Orthodontics at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy and the Director of I.T.E.B. (Innovative Technology and Engineered Biomaterials) research center from 2002 to 2020.
He has published extensively (more than 300 papers) in the leading referred international orthodontic journals and reviews manuscripts for all these journals and Associate Editor of Progress in Orthodontics. He is author of 10 books and 6 chapters.
His current research interests include early and interceptive treatment, vertical dimension in growing patients, application of artificial intelligence to orthodontics and materials related to orthodontic aligners. In addition, Prof. Caprioglio is an internationally recognized expert in mouth breathing and sleep disorder problems, impacted canines, molar distalization and dental traumatology associated to orthodontics treatment.
He lectured around the world for regional and local societies, for EOS, AAO and WFO.
He is a Certified Member of the Italian Board of Orthodontic and of the European Board of Orthodontic moreover he is an Active Member of the Angle Society of Europe.
Actually, he is the President of the European Board of Orthodontics (EBO) and Elected President of the Italian Society of Orthodontics (S.I.D.O.)
He is the recipient of several national and international grants and research prizes such as the “F.E.O. Best clinical Paper 2014” (London, Great Britain 2015), the “Gold medal for Orthodontics” presented by Croatian Orthodontics Society (Split, Croatia, 2016), the “2018 Best paper from a foreign university publish in JOO” by Deuthsche Gesellschaft fur Kieferorthopaedie and the prestigious “2017 B.F. and Helen Dewel Clinical Research Award” presented by the American Association of Orthodontics (San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 2017) and given for the highest ranked clinical research published in the American Journal of Orthodontics & Deantofacial Orthopedics.
All sessions by Alberto Caprioglio (Italy)
Distal-driven orthodontics: where, when, and why
Prezentare Alberto Caprioglio (Italy) Palas Congress Hall, Sala CHOPIN
