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EVENT RECAP · NOVEMBER 2024 · BUCHAREST

Bone-anchored orthopedics for Class II and Class III growth with Dr. Hugo De Clerck

A day and a half in Bucharest with the pioneer of bone-anchored orthopedics, on what growth modification can really achieve and how skeletal anchorage changes the results.

  November 13–14, 2024 · Sheraton Hotel, Bucharest

  1.5 days · English

  Organized by Upgraded Events

What we coveredAll our events

Dr. Hugo De Clerck

1.5
days

4
course parts

70+
cases in his bone-anchored Herbst study

3
major AAO and AJODO awards

What the course covered

01

Dento-facial orthopedics

  Which growth centers orthopedics can influence

  Recommended force systems and expected biological outcome

02

Class III orthopedic traction

  Face mask therapy and its limits

  Miniscrews and miniplates for skeletal anchorage

  3D quantification of orthopedic change

03

Class II orthopedics

  Functional appliances and the evidence for mandibular growth

  Measuring growth mechanisms with 3D imaging

04

Bone-anchored Herbst appliance

  A prospective clinical trial in adolescents and young adults

  Forward chin projection without lower incisor proclination

THE SPEAKER

Dr. Hugo De Clerck

Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. De Clerck chaired the orthodontics department at the Université Catholique de Louvain from 1989 to 2006 and practices in Brussels. His research focuses on skeletal anchorage, biomechanics and orthopedics.

  Jacob A. Salzmann Award, American Association of Orthodontists (2019)

  John Valentine Mershon Memorial Award (2022) and AJODO Dewel Award (2012)

  Former president of the Belgian Orthodontic Society

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