Carlota Rey-Joly Maura
New trens in orthodontics. Digital indirect bonding, an asset for the quality of orthodontic finishing?
- European Board of Orthodontics by the Portuguese Dental Association (2023).
- Award for Best Oral Presentation at the Congress of the Portuguese Society of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (SPODF) in 2021.
- 4th-year student of the International PhD program in Orthodontics with a focus on digital workflow at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona (2020-to date).
- Postgraduate in Orthodontics from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Lisbon (2016-2019).
- Master’s degree in Dental Medicine from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Barcelona (2016).
- Author of publications and posters in various fields, with a special focus on orthodontics and 3D/digital workflow orthodontics.
Nationality: Spain
Scientific areas: Orthodontics
7 of november, from 09h35 until 10h10
Auditorium B
Conference summary
Successful orthodontic treatment is closely related to precise bracket positioning.
Over the past few years, orthodontics has evolved to integrate technological innovation and computer-aided systems (CAD/CAM) to its clinical practice and has adopted digital workflows to modernize its methods.
This advance has transformed traditional techniques, such as indirect bonding originally described by Silverman and Cohen in 1972, into more precise and efficient processes.
Digital indirect bonding offers a new horizon of possibilities for orthodontic professionals in their clinical practice.
Digitizing the process includes obtaining the patient’s intraoral records using an intraoral scanner, virtual planning of the ideal positioning of the brackets, creating 3D indirect bonding guides using computer-aided design software (CAD/CAM) and, in the final stage, prototyping these guides using 3D printing technology.
The transition to the digital flow poses new challenges for orthodontic practice, challenges that mark the start of the future.