Frequently asked questions

No, Smiletech has simplified the cost prediction by creating spending ranges.

A valid planning for an orthodontic treatment requires an adequate set of diagnostic data. The Smiletech platform allows you to independently upload photographs and radiographies, creating an archive of your patient that can be consulted in any moment on any device.

Yes: PVS putty and light in double phase impressions, polyether single phase or STL files from an intra oral scan.

The impressions must be complete also in the area of the last molars if they are present in the arch.

Yes, always, in any case.

The current trend is to complete the treatment in the shortest possible time since the patient compliance in wearing the aligners for 22 hours a day, inevitably tends to decrease with the time. It has been tested that the material of which the aligner is made, during its permanence in the oral cavity tends to lose its release of force after some days, due to the action of heat and saliva. We therefore recommend the following protocol: 15 days from the first to the third aligner, 10 days from the fourth onwards, for cases that require a large number of aligners, the time can be reduced to 7 days. However, it is strictly necessary to monitor the patient’s compliance to modulate the protocol.

Check the aligner at each replacement: if the difference between it and the teeth is minimal and reduces to zero after two weeks, this is an indication of a good patient cooperation. The lack of fitting between aligners and teeth is an indication of poor collaboration, generally noticeable from the fourth aligner onwards.

The aligners will start to not fit perfectly on the teeth.

Make sure that the patient is wearing the aligners for at least 22 hours a day, after 3 days if the problem persists, contact SMILETECH. Check that the stripping have been executed and measured correctly as instructed.

Ask the patient to bite a chewie for one minute, three times a day, for three days.

The Smiletech system, unlike other brands, applies a Total Control procedure making a maximum of 20 aligners with one impression, in order to pursue short-medium term objectives and thus guarantee a perfect fit between the aligner and tooth, a fundamental prerequisite for the correct action of the aligners.

Try to use the next aligner, if it does not fit properly make the patient wear the previous one and contact SMILETECH to ask for a copy of the broken one.

Reduce the size of the template with a scalpel by removing the portion that extends over the teeth adjacent to the interested tooth.

To remove, lift the aligner by applying force in the area of the second molars, lingual side. If necessary, ask the patient to use the hook for aligner removal present in the patient kit.

Progressively reduce the spherical attachments on the premolars, the anchoring ones.

Once the planned aligners have depleted, the definitive orthodontic alignment is often not achieved. In this case, Smiletech supplies additional finishing aligner packages. If the difference with the projected result is minimal, affecting a maximum of two teeth, contact SMILETECH to ask for the refinement without taking new impressions. If the difference extends over several teeth, take new impressions. The first finishing phase is free of charge if the following requirements are met: • The new impressions are sent after a reasonable period of time from last aligner. • The patient cooperated by wearing the aligners for at least 22 hours a day. • The stripping was executed and measured as instructed in the project. • The attachments were applied correctly for all the duration of the treatment. • The aligner replacement time for all the duration of the treatment corresponds to 14 days and not more.

No. The retention mask has to be made of a more rigid and thicker material.

Yes we do.

If you assess that the degree of recurrence is mild, contact Smiletech to ask for a copy, all of our retainers are saved in a digital archive for at least 24 months.