Orthodontic Treatment of Skeletal Class II Open Bite Using TADs

By using TADs, many patients who needed orthognathic surgery were resolved only with orthodontic treatment. Dr. Kim will share the clinical experience gained by encountering various cases.

In particular, he will present the answers to the following questions with information that will be helpful for orthodontists who want to try this for the first time or those who have tried several times but do not get satisfactory results or have failed.

1. Which method is better to use? Various methods have been tried, and among them, the safest and most reliable way is introduced.
2. What is the frequent causes of the failures?
3. To what extent can it be solved without orthognathic surgery?
4. Methods to overcome barriers encountered in the clinical process
5. How to achieve long-term stability?

Learning Objectives:

• Identify good indications and to perform treatment of skeletal Class II open bite using TADs.
• Recognize the reliable methods of treatment with TADs.
• Solve clinical difficulties for each step they may encounter while implementing this method.