This book provides essential knowledge for dental technicians and dentists interested in orthodontics regarding the production of orthodontic appliances. The indications for each device are deliberately not addressed, as this falls solely within the competence of the specialist orthodontist.

Content:

• Dental development
• Occlusion and malocclusion
• Anomalies and their causes
• Physiology of tooth movement
• Orthodontic history taking and diagnosis (including the new chapter on instrumental functional analysis)
• Guidelines and levels
• Model analysis (with new chapters)
• Work instructions and systematic working methods (new with the chapter on processing light-curing plastics)
• The plastic base for plate devices and activators
• Individually bent wire elements (new with the chapter "The Kalthoff pliers")
• Orthodontic screws and devices
• Double plate systems as well as plates with anterior and posterior guidance
• Activators (new with the EOA – elastically open activator according to Klammt and the dental former according to Bimler)
• Production of bimaxillary devices
• The Crozat appliance
• The positioner and similar elastic devices (new with the Osamu retainer)
• Appliances for molar distalization (new)
• Van-der-Linden retainer (new)
• Devices for palatal expansion (new).