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
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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
New programs are in preparation for 2027
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