Clear aligner therapy

The SmartForce features are designed for increased predictability of certain tooth movements, and simpler, more intuitive software to streamline treatment planning and review.

‘The Invisalign G3 innovations get at the heart of what orthodontists have been asking for from Invisalign treatment,’ said Align Technology’s international clinical director, Mitra Derakhshan. ‘With software technology and tools that are designed to expand the clinical scope of Invisalign, deliver increased predictability across most clinical situations and make treatment planning more efficient, Invisalign G3 delivers the clinical features doctors expect and can make it easier to use across a broad range of treatments.’

Class II and III treatments make up approximately 40 per cent of all patients in an orthodontist’s practice, and often require the use of interarch elastics to provide anchorage control during treatment. In order to treat Class II/III malocclusions, doctors previously had to manually cut the aligners to accommodate the use of elastics, which may have discouraged the use of Invisalign in these cases. Invisalign G3 addresses this barrier with new Precision Cuts, which are doctor-prescribed cuts in the aligners to accommodate the use of orthodontic elastics.