OPEN BITE TREATMENT WITH INVISALIGN ALIGNERS

When it comes to open bites, whether they are dental, skeletal or both at the same time, I am sure that we all will categorize them as challenging and difficult orthodontic anomalies to treat.
After doing countless cases of treating open bites with fixed appliances (brackets and wires) and also with Invisalign aligners I can easily state that my “weapon of choice” for open bite malocclusion is absolutely Invisalign aligners. The biomechanical fact of the aligner is that it’s a “closed system” where teeth are surrounded by the plastic of the aligner. This is giving us a biomechanical advantage in corrections in vertical dimensions. Nevertheless, your biomechanical knowledge and treatment plan concept has to be correct and predictable. Without that all the advantages that aligner is giving us are useless and treatment might end up with a failure. My goal is to show you biomechanical aspects and treatment plan assembly when treating open bites.
In my humble opinion the predictability, efficiency, practicality and capability of Invisalign aligners in treating open bites is second to none!
Join me in my lecture where I will show you cases, mechanics, attachment, and protocols for treating various open bite malocclusion with Invisalign aligners.

David Raičković, Orthodontic specialist

Invisalign® TOP 1% Diamond Provider and Clinical Speaker 2018, 2019, 2020
GC Orthodontics® Key Opinion Leader and Clinical Speaker
Experience:

2007 – present Owner at “DR DAVID digitalna orthodoncija”, Split, Croatia

2016 – 2020 Associate Orthodontic specialist at “Poliklinika Identalia”, Zagreb, Croatia

2012 – 2013 Visiting orthodontics resident at Dr. Yon H. Lai Orthodontic Clinic, New York, USA



Education:

2016 Orthodontic residency at KBC Zagreb, Croatia

2013 International Orthodontic Residency, New York University, New York, USA

2007 DMD School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia



Continuing Education:

2019. Kenji Ojima Aligner Master Course, Tokyo, Japan

2019. Master COIP update, Madrid, Spain

2019. GC Orthodontics speakers meeting, Leuven, Belgium

2018. Master COIP update, Madrid, Spain

2018. Invisalign and TADs, Porto, Portugal

2018. GC Orthodontics, GET Congress, Budapest, Hungary

2018. K&K Diamond Master Class, Bioaligner Institute, Madrid, Spain

2018. 2nd European Aligner Symposium, Venice, Italy

2017. Master COIP update, Madrid, Spain

2017. 1st European Aligner Symposium, Vienna, Austria

2017. Master COIP, Madrid, Spain

2016. EUMAA Invisalign Master Class, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013. The Greater New York Dental Meeting, New York, USA

2012. American Association of Orthodontics, Philadelphia, USA

2012. The Greater New York Dental Meeting, New York, USA



Associations member:

New York University Alumni (NYU ALUMNI)

Consortium for Translational Orthodontic Research (CTOR)

American Association of Orthodontists (AAO)

European Aligner Society (EAS)

Croatian Society of Orthodontists (HDO-HLZ)



Speaker at live events:

December 2018. Invisalign Study Club Zagreb, Croatia

March 2019. Invisalign Study Club Ljubljana, Slovenia

March 2019. Invisalign Study Club Budapest, Hungary

April 2019. GC Orthodontics speakers meeting Leuven, Belgium

May 2019. Aesthetic Dental Moment Zadar, Croatia

June 2019. Invisalign Study Club Zagreb, Croatia

September 2019. Invisalign Study Club Vilnius, Lithuania

September 2019. Invisalign Study Club Riga, Latvia

October 2019. Invisalign Study Club Budapest, Hungary

November 2019. First Invisalign Russian Forum, Moscow, Russia

November 2019. Invisalign Study Club Zagreb, Croatia

March 2020. Invisalign Mentoring and Certification Course Kiev, Ukraine

April 2020. Invisalign online Study Club, Moscow, Russia

April 2020. Invisalign online Mentoring and Certification Course Budapest, Hungary

April 2020. Invisalign online Study Club, Istanbul, Turkey

May 2020. Invisalign online Mentoring and Certification Course Croatia & Slovenia

July 2020. Invisalign online Mentoring and Certification Course Budapest, Hungary

July 2020. Online Master Class for University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

August 2020. Invisalign online Mentoring and Certification Course Belgrade, Serbia