smilesolutions.com and today i'm here at the iao convention and i just met with the rep
from centrum ortho organizers about the carrier device and evidently i was somewhat wrong in
what i just posted in my other videos so he actually didn't normally have him do the demo
but he actually didn't want to be on video so he told me a lot of information that i didn't know
so i'm going to go ahead and tell you some of the cool things that i learned about this device
i still have never actually used it but
i think that it definitely has indications in ways i hadn't thought of it so one point that he made
that i never thought about is if you're using insurance and you're wanting to build same day
so that usually means you have to actually glue something on teeth or deliver something right
so unless you have in-house aligners or something like that that's not going to happen but if you go
ahead and bond the carrier motion device it counts as a start so never ever thought about that before
the motion device but you could do that especially in cases but you know the main thing is you cannot
have eights in so no impacted third molars can be in so you can go ahead and bond it either from
three to six or from four to seven so one thing i liked here that they told us about is that in
cases with high canines you could go ahead and bond it from four to seven let's say you have one
of those cases where the fours um fives and sixes and sevens all slid kind of forward and they um
the canines are up topic blocked out and they're high you could go ahead and you make an essex
on the lower which you could definitely do in office most people have a second machine right
you go ahead and bond that hook on the bottom
sorry for the glare here but you can see the hook that they have right here it's right
here so this is recommended it's a really good hook but you could also just take any bondable
tube that you have from your braces and do that too or any like invisalign button so lower is
getting that hook you can see how it's distally placed you guys see how the hook is right there
so you can see that and you put the essex goes over that there's a little window cut out
and then there's the motion device right there that's going from three to six so or you know
you can go from four to seven so that's it if you've had some molar slippage that's a great
way to get that ortho start rolling you know and to get the molars you know locked into a position
um just going to shorten that aligner case a lot more or for braces cases you know it's really
difficult to distillate so just go ahead and get started and it's it's so aesthetic no one's even
gonna notice that they have it obviously it's only going to work when they wear that elastic
and the elastic is going to go from right there um the front part of this lever to the hook down
there so that's the class 2. they also have a class 3 version that's opposite so one other cool
thing that he told me about that never thought about it is in a limited ortho patient be it an
adult you know with a tipped molar or a molar that needs uprighting you know maybe for a bridge or an
implant and maybe they don't want to have braces or they want to just have you want to do really
like cheaper white label limited aligners short term aligners to try to save on lab fees you can
go ahead and put this device in and this device can actually upright the molar it doesn't have to
distalize it can just you can just take it to the point of uprighting and then go ahead and lock it
in with the tpa or something like that and then you can go ahead and finish your limited ortho
in that segment um potentially you know decreasing the amount of liners you have to just a few liners
or just a few brackets you know for a few months instead of something major so those are two
indications that i had really never thought of but i really just wanted to explain it to you a little
bit more so you can see that um so hopefully that was helpful information and he did explain
there were some cases here this was the great greatest graphics but um just like i mentioned
i said indication would be in those blocked out canines and that that i can see you know
this you know especially if it's a class one patient where they just had slippage you know
definitely unilateral slippage i can see the point of that mid lanes are off that would make sense
in this case i don't love the idea of doing it in a class
iii patient who's clearly maxillary deficient that probably wouldn't be what i would do
i would probably go ahead and use the attraction face mask in that case
but um he did say that lots of protocols here that the price point is more like 250 to
oh sorry yeah it's about 250 to 300 from both sides so i think i said 500 so it's less than
and maybe it depends on where you buy it from too you know who the vendor because i've been
quoted much higher before but um hopefully that was helpful i gave you the card before of
um this gentleman who's selling it he's in canada but uh at least you know what's going on and you
know maybe i'm a little more bullish about this device than i was before all right thanks so much