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Detailed Description of 50.01.v5-About Invisalign TreatmentIntended Audience and Prerequisites for 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course
The Intended Audience for this course are dentists, dental hygienists, orthodontists, orthodontic assistants, and dental students who should know how to examine a patient to orthodontically assess the orthodontic treatment needs of a patient. Prerequisites for this course should be covered in the training programs for dental students, dental hygiene students, dental assisting students and other dental practitioner students.
Suggested prerequisites for other types of students are college level courses in writing, basic sciences including human anatomy and physiology, and basic math.
Course Background
Welcome to this OrthoTraining Invisalign course, 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment, that will teach the doctor and the team how to treat Invisalign patients delivering the highest standard of orthodontic care. This course follows a neuroscientifically-based method of teaching that guides the brain to learn quickly and remember important concepts so you can perform procedures at a high standard clinically.
This online presentation of 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment was first published by Dr. Rebecca Poling when she was a professor at New York University College of Dentistry. In 2017, she taught 400 second-year dental students “basic orthodontics and Invisalign” as part of an Esthetics Lab course, so that some of those dental students could treat their own patients with limited Invisalign therapy in the NYU Predoctoral Invisalign Clinic, which she also set up and directed.
All orthodontic treatment is a team effort, a system of individuals working together. Everyone needs to understand what is going on so that the team will be efficient and can trust other team members to do their part.
Objectives - At the conclusion of 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment the learner will:
- Identify a potential patient, explain clear aligner therapy, and Triage your patient
- Examine your patient with the New Patient Orthodontic Exam Form and present your patient to your Mentor or faculty and receive approval to treat
- Take Orthodontic Records: Photos, PVS Impressions or intraoral scan with Bite Registration, Panoramic or Full Mouth Series of Radiographs, and produce and analyze a Cephalometric Radiograph
- Develop an Invisalign Treatment Plan and Submit it online to Invisalign
- ClinCheck review, editing, and approval
- Aligners received, placement of attachments and delivery of the first aligners
- Interproximal Reduction (IPR) if indicated
- Delivery of all aligners and monitoring patient tracking and progress
- Final Review Exam and need for a Refinement
- Completion of Invisalign treatment, Final Review Exam, removal of attachments, Enamelplasty as needed, minor occlusal adjustment, final photographs, seating of bonded and/or removable retainers, final intraoral scan, final panoramic if one not taken in past year, final cephalometric headfilm if one taken initially. Then compare Initial Records with Final Records to document the case and learn from the treatment experience.
Course Materials Included in the 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course:
After creation of a free OrthoTraining Student Account, selection of the 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course, and payment of the US$60 subscription fee, the user will receive:
- 30 days of access to the 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course
- An interactive online presentation available for unlimited viewing during the access period
- 1 Interactive online Knowledge Quiz to measure learning
- SCORM Tracking that collects data on student viewing time, Presentation score, and Knowledge Quiz score for "grade" calculation and reporting
- Student Dashboard Report listing progress in completion of the course requirements that will be used to generate a "grade" for the course
- Printable copy of the Course Completion Certificate with ADA-CERP OrthoTraining Approved Provider awarding 3 CE Credits
50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course Resource Documents
Course Resource Documents that are linked on Slide 4 of the presentation under “Resources” in the upper right corner are:
- 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Script of the narration
- The Invisalign Triage Form to help a dental student determine if a patient is suitable for the student to treat. This form was designed to help the student evaluate the difficulty of a potential Invisalign case.
- A list of the 10 Steps of Invisalign Treatment and notes about each step
- A list of the 5 Desired Outcomes of Treatment so a student of Invisalign will be able to strive for the basic objectives of orthodontic treatment and evaluate the results of Invisalign treatment.
- A copy of the 2017 NYU Predoctoral Invisalign Clinic Protocol listing ALL the steps in treating a patient in the NYU Predoctoral Invisalign Clinic. This will give you an idea about how involved Invisalign Treatment can be. It may also be used by other dental schools who want to teach basic orthodontics and set up an Invisalign Clinic at their own programs.
Other Information about this CE Activity: 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course
Course Subscription Fee: The 50.01.v5-About Invisalign Treatment Course subscription fee is US$60 for 30 days of access to the course and Course Resources for a single user.
The Course Instructor is Dr. Rebecca Poling, an ABO-certified orthodontist, former professor at a major US university, international lecturer, and the Founder of OrthoTraining. She has no conflicts of interest.
