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Even assessing wear and compliance requires a new way of thinking. After
doing orthodontics forever, you just know if a patient is wearing his elastics
or headgear. The same eventually goes with aligners-at first you may not
know if the problem is the patient or the appliance's capabilities, but as you
get more comfortable it's easy to distinguish.
(Also, I know this sounds unusual, but with fi xed you can sometimes
move a root 20 degrees off by bracket placement error. There is no such issue
with clear aligners.)

7. Don't use braces as a crutch.
I rarely use any fi xed whatsoever with aligners. I don't use Class 2 or
Class 3 correctors before aligner therapy; I do it all with aligners because I
consider them to be wonderful appliances for such issues.
If I would have said that 10 years ago, I would've thought I was on drugs.
But if you're persistent, you will really learn how to use the appliance.

8. Get acquainted with the continuing education
section on the aligner's website for doctors.

Peer inside
Dr. Harnick's
practice
Dr. David Harnick's Albuquerque
practice was featured in an
Office Visit in the July/August
issue of Orthotown. It's not too
late to check it out! Visit
orthotown.com/harnick-office
to read the Q&A and check out
the pictures.

I've listened to almost every lecture that's been posted since
I started, and I've taken every CE course. I even listen to the GP
lectures to see what they're being taught. I want to know everything
about everything.
You're going to need to go to some of the live CE courses that are
available. Although not widely available, there are meetings besides
the biannual big summit.

9. Start taking advantage of when clear
aligners are the treatment of choice.
Open bites because of posterior coverage are no-brainer aligner
cases. I particularly like doing lower incisor extraction cases with
clear aligners; I can preplan the occlusion, pinpoint any IPR necessary
on the upper, and there's no need for brackets to parallel the roots.
Adjusting to a clear-aligner practice takes time and effort, but I've
discovered that clear aligners have been the main force in growing my
practice. Whether you like it or not, they're the wave of the future. n

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