19/08/2026
📝 Adult skeletal Class III patient treated with MSE + aligners in 12 months. How?
🔑 As always: good DIAGNOSIS and a clear treatment plan.
🗣️Aligners move teeth, not bone. Severe dentoalveolar expansion can lead to periodontal problems, occlusal instability and relapse.
⚠️In this adult patient, we followed a protocol combining MSE + aligners. In the before and after CBCT, we can see how we maintained, and even improved, posterior torque while achieving a real skeletal gain, aiming for long term occlusal stability and avoiding posterior open bites.
But remember: not every adult patient is a candidate for this type of expansion 🫵 It is essential to understand the suture stage, appliance design, how to make expansion more predictable and, most importantly, when to expand and when not to!
📣 Stay tuned! Next week we will launch our new intensive aligner courses at 🔗Bio Global Clear Aligner Education & focusonaligners.com. Spending 6 months together gives us time to go through simple, moderate and complex cases, giving you a broad range of clinical scenarios and, most importantly, helping you develop your own clinical judgement.
