title: Computer-aided interactive indirect bonding.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The introduction of the virtual occlusal set-up, limited to the permanent dentition with dento-dental and dento-alveolar discrepancies, based on the straight wire technique with final arches .020" x .025" ss in straight wire brackets .022" x .028" is an evolution of the 3D digital model with clinical impact.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present a computer-aided solution to orthodontic indirect bonding, allowing accurate positioning of straight-wire brackets based on a virtual occlusal set-up resulting from the treatment plan.
  
  
  METHODS
  Computer-aided indirect bonding was applied in two cases: a Class II patient in the permanent dentition, crowding, rotation of upper and lower bicuspids and a Class I patient in the permanent dentition with already extracted 1.4, 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, severe crowding, rotation, arch form reduction. Speed brackets were utilized in both cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the first case the brackets' starting position on the patient corresponds to the final position on the virtual occlusal set-up. In the second case the resulting occlusion at the end of treatment corresponds to the final occlusion on the virtual occlusal set-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The computerized tools employed in the process enabled precise bracket placement on the stone model. An algorithm from the virtual set-up is the determinant for the precision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Computer aided indirect bonding is a method of placing brackets precisely.
authors.affiliation: info@drgarino.it
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garino
authors.forename: G Battista
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Garino
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D001840:Dental Bonding / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D003765:Models, Dental; D016910:Orthodontic Brackets