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Treatment
planning
is
an
integral
part
of
any
treatment
and
especially
when
it
is
applied
in
orthodontics.
So
many
factors
such
as
hereditary
blueprints,
habits,
growth,
pre-existing
conditions,
clinical
condition
of
teeth
and
jaw,
type
of
appliance
selection,
amount
of
force,
potential,
chief
complaint,
age,
clinician’s
experience
and
lastly
patient
cooperation
play
a
role
in
implementing
proper
orthodontic
mechanics.
Some
of
these
factors
can
at
best
be
predicted,
some
can
be
estimated
and
then
controlled
and
some
can't
be
controlled
at
all.
We,
as
clinicians
must
do
all
we
can
to
be
accurate
in
our
predictions,
mechanics,
and
control.
Therefore,
we
must
have
a
goal
to
achieve
and
work
toward
it.
This
goal
is
partially
interdependent
from
patient's
complaint,
but
is
not
limited
to;
however,
it
does
give
clinicians
a
direction.
Patient's
complaint
is
quite
generalized
such
as
"My
teeth
are
crooked,”
"I
have
buck
teeth"
or
"I
don't
like
spaces
between
my
front
teeth.”
I
have
yet
to
come
across
a
patient
who
has
demanded
to
take
his
teeth
back
by 3
mm.
Our
patients
just
assume
that
we,
the
professionals
know
what
to
do
and
exactly
where
to
place
those
teeth
so
that
in
the
end,
they
will
have
beautifully
arranged
teeth. Well, easier said
than
done.
We
know
that
orthodontics
is a
lot
more
than
arranging
teeth
and
we
must
have
a
plan.
This
plan
must
address
to
begin
with
esthetic
expectations
of
our
patient
followed
by
re-arrangement
of
teeth
and
jaws
in a
stable
relationship.
So
then,
we
must
define
a
"final"
position
that
is
esthetic,
stable,
and
functionally
sound.
We
will
then
work
our
treatment
plan
so
that
this
final
position
can
be
achieved.
Our
treatment
plan
will
take
into
account
this
final
position,
patient's
complaint,
potential
related
to
age,
growth,
gender,
race,
skeletal
relationship,
and
enamel
excess.
This
esthetic
final
position
is
also
an
anatomically
correct
position
with
teeth
over
their
apical
bases,
parallel
to
each
other
with
Class
I
cuspid
relationship.
Read
More
Questions?
read
article:
Light
Differential
Orthodontic
Mechanics
(LDOM)
International
Journal
of
Orthodontics:
Volume
14.
Number
2.Summer
2003
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