PROGRAM RECAP · 2025 · ROME & BUCHAREST
Smart Straight Wire: a modular program with Dr. Roberta Lione
Two-day modules in Rome and Bucharest, taking residents and young specialists from orthodontic diagnosis to clinical mechanics, with hands-on work and discussion of their own cases.
March – December 2025 · Rome and Bucharest
5 two-day modules held · English
The sixth module, planned for January 2026, was cancelled
One program director for all modules, small group of up to 25 participants
Organized by Upgraded Events
5
modules
10
days of training
2
cities: Rome and Bucharest
25
seats at most
The modules
Every module combined lectures with hands-on work and discussion of participants’ own cases.
01
Diagnosis and treatment planning
Clinical examination and records
Esthetic and cephalometric analysis
Problem list and dental VTO
Hands-on: diagnosis on a clinical case
02
Transverse discrepancy and intra-arch mechanics
Maxillary expansion at every age
MBT appliance and sliding mechanics
Archwire sequence and anchorage
Hands-on: bracket positioning and bonding
03
Class I and impacted canines
Dento-alveolar discrepancy and bimaxillary protrusion
Missing lateral incisors: open or close the space
Interproximal reduction
Impacted canines: interceptive and surgical-orthodontic treatment
04
Class II malocclusion
Diagnosis of Class II
Functional therapy and skeletal maturation (CVM)
Extraction and non-extraction treatment
Hands-on: lacebacks, tiebacks and bendbacks
05
Class III and vertical problems
Open bite and deep bite
True Class III versus pseudo-Class III
Face mask therapy in growing patients
Hands-on: finishing bends on steel archwires
06
Clear aligner treatment · cancelled
Planned for January 2026 in Bucharest
This module was cancelled
THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Roberta Lione
Program director · Professor and Research Fellow, UniCamillus, Rome
IBO and EBO certified
Teaches in the postgraduate orthodontic program at Tor Vergata
Dr. Chiara Pavoni
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dr. Francesca Gazzani
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dr. Elisabetta Cretella Lombardo
Speaker · orthodontist, PhD, University of Rome Tor Vergata
GALLERY
Moments from the course
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