Inman Aligner
31 Jan 2015 | Clinical Excellence
A 49-year-old female patient presented as an emergency following a fracture to an upper bridge. She has been a patient of the practice since 2004 after immigrating to New Zealand from the UK and under my care since 2009. Her oral health was generally very good; she experienced minimal bleeding on probing, had no apparent decay, was a non-smoker and...
30 Sep 2014 | Clinical Excellence
Shannon is a 17-year-old female who first presented for a preventive check-up in 2009. She had always wanted to have straight teeth and had been considering orthodontic treatment for several years. However, she had a number of concerns with conventional fixed orthodontic treatment, which included high treatment cost and long treatment period and sh...
31 Jul 2014 | Adult Ortho
Following on from our introduction to cosmetic tooth alignment systems in the last edition, we will now look at some of the more popular systems in greater detail.
One system that has gained popularity is the Inman Aligner. This patented, effective and unique evolution of the traditional spring retainer uses super-elastic Nickel-Titanium open coil...
31 Jan 2014 | Clinical Excellence
Digital Smile Design is making a come back in a very smart and intelligent form through the use of live video, cameras and keynote presentations. I commend the users of this technique as it is clearly a far better form of smile design planning than just using plain static before after pictures with someone else's smile stitched into place. However,...
31 Oct 2013 | Clinical Excellence
In my opinion, simple anterior orthodontics has been overlooked for many years as potentially one of the most important and useful areas in dentistry. This can be highlighted by the suggestion that many dentists simply do not identify or recognize that the increased crowding in the anterior region over time can lead to, or is linked to, a collapse ...
31 Jan 2013 | Clinical Excellence
Simple tooth alignment is rapidly becoming accepted as the norm in cases that previously would have been treated with porcelain veneers. However, patients often present with a mix of problems such as previous metal ceramic work, the treatment of which should be integrated as part of the treatment plan.
Timing becomes a vital part of the treatment w...
31 May 2012 | Clinical Excellence
The Inman Aligner is currently one of the most widely used simple orthodontic/cosmetic dental products in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Its use is also growing in Australia, the US and the Middle East.
This is all to do with training dentists to use the system in an intelligent way, because, quite simply, the results that can be ac...
30 Nov 2011 | Spectrum
Smile Corporation has successfully staged the first Inman Aligner courses in Australia in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Nearly 100 delegates experienced the course conducted by UK dentist Dr Tif Qureshi which has been sold out across Europe over the last two years.
30 Sep 2011 | Clinical Excellence
Cosmetic dentistry has been around in various forms for several decades now. The biggest catalyst was arguably Pincus’ 1937 invention - the porcelain veneer.1 This gave Hollywood actors a short term solution that would hang on just long enough for the director to say “cut”. At the time, the lack of any real bond strength meant they were only ...
31 Jul 2011 | Clinical Excellence
If the nineties were the decade of the ultra white Hollywood smile, the noughties seem to have ushered in an era of more refined tastes in smile design. While there is still demand for whiter teeth, many patients are now asking for a more natural look than the dead straight over-bright identikit smiles of the last decade.
In keeping with this more ...
15 Mar 2011 | Clinical Excellence
The following article is Part 2 in a series discussing the use of the Inman Aligner as a tool for minimally invasive cosmetic dentistry.1 The first article (published in November/December 2010) demonstrated that standalone treatments offer patients an alternative to both fixed braces, which are unsightly and have long treatment times; and to expens...
01 Nov 2010 | Clinical Excellence
Traditionally, cosmetic dentistry has always been faced with the challenge of treating poorly aligned teeth. Treatment options available for mildly and moderately crowded teeth include orthodontics and restorative dentistry. Many patients have chosen the restorative approach, for example porcelain veneers, over orthodontic techniques because of lon...
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