Finishing orthodontic cases can be a very technical endeavor, with the most talented orthodontists perfecting their skills over thousands of cases. You can take a 2-day course to build your skills and more  efficiently hone these techniques. Refine your wire bending and case  finishing capabilities with POS’ most tenured instructor, Dr. Jeffery Taylor, or our popular tenured instructor, Dr. Brian Liao.

Improve the results, efficiency and profitability of your orthodontic cases with optimized finishing skills. You will develop both your  diagnostic and mechanics abilities with this very practical course.

 Curriculum: 

• How to develop a Finishing Treatment Plan
• Understand the most common finishing techniques
  • 1st order bends
  • 2nd order bends
  • Extra oral finishing bends
  • Intra oral finishing bends
  • Recontouring for esthetics
  • Bracket repositioning
  • Using positioners
• What to look for when you have finished mechanics
• Concepts to make finishing as efficient and effective as possible
• How to manage band space in the adult and child patient
• Learn which wires and pliers should be used for each procedure
• Correct diastemas, midlines, overjet and open occlusion problems with finishing
• Common wire bending problems and how to prevent them
• Practice the POS Intra-Oral Finishing System™

Hands-On Workshop 

You will practice various finishing bends with 018ss and 18x25H and reshaping with 018ss and 19x25ss wires. You will use a light wire plier,  hollowchop plier, intra-oral finishing pliers, and your hands to  practice the proper bends for example cases. Get direct, hands-on feedback from an experienced clinician to achieve superior results in  case finishing and detailing.

Course includes video recording. 
When you register you will receive automatic video access in your SmileStream My Purchase account.