Clear Orthodontic Aligners Treatment: Current State and Future Possibilities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 25122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clear aligner; orthodontic; esthetics; finite element analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: clear aligner; orthodontic; esthetics; finite element analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: clear aligner; orthodontic; esthetics; finite element analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to this Special Issue on “Clear Orthodontic Aligners Treatment: Current State and Future Possibilities”.
Clear aligner treatment (CAT) is becoming a topic of growing importance in contemporary orthodontics, as a great number of patients seek this kind of approach. Scientific literature today still lacks high-quality papers with definitive results on the real efficiency of CAT. In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring various aspects of CAT from clinicians’ point of view but also from patients’ point of view. We ask for scientific research focused on the predictability of movements, efficacy of staging protocols, CAT in children and in teenage patients, quality of life in patients treated with CAT, changes in oral microbiome, and future prospectives.
Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome, as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.
Dr. Simone Parrini
Dr. Gabriele Rossini
Prof. Dr. Andrea Deregibus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clear aligner
- esthetics
- finite element analysis
- predictability
- patient perception
- oral microbioma
- tooth movement
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