GAP Magazine Clear Idea Volume 5

4 www.acasociety.com | info@acasociety.com Congratulations Dr Haylea Blundell O n behalf of the ACAS committee and members, we would like to extend a heart-felt congratulation to Dr Haylea Blundell for recently winning the 2021 WilliamR Proffit Resident Student Scholar Award from the AAO, the 2021 Elsdon StoryAward from the ASO and third prize at the 2020 International Orthodontic Conference! The above awards are a true testament to Haylea’s hard work, critical thinking and commitment in her research project – “Predictability of overbite control with the Invisalign ® appliance”. For those who have attended ACAS2019 and ACAS2020, it is not new information that “what you see on the software plan doesn’t always happen in clinically”. Similarly, for those who attended Dr TonyWeir’s talk at ACAS2021 Virtual, it was a sobering reminded that shortfalls in expression of planned movement is the norm. Haylea’s research, which she com- pleted under the leadership of Dr Tony Weir, is particularly important to finding scientific answers to quantify the shortfall between software setup compared to what we see clinical- ly expressed, particularly in managing the vertical dimension (for further discussion around deep bite cases with aligners, see Dr Tony Weir’s article in this edition of Clear Idea ). As part of Haylea’s research, she found that “the Invisalign ® appliance only expresses 39.2% of the prescribed overbite reduction on ClinCheck ® ”. With this information, and similar high-quality research like this, we as a profession are continuing to learn more about aligners and will be better placed at assessing suitability of cases and how to improve our software setups to overcome such shortfalls. We are proud to announce that Haylea will be presenting a 1-hour lecture on her research at ACAS2021 in August! We look forward to seeing all her further research that she is currently undertaking with Dr Weir and we wish her the best of luck with her new specialist orthodontic practice – Bendigo Orthodontic Specialists – in Bendigo, Victoria. Full flexibility with Xplan Design Service Xplan, the clear aligner design service from Dental Axess, gives you full flexibility and allows you to outsource time-consuming design steps whilst keeping control over costs and treatment quality. Benefits of Xplan Substantial Time Savings Case Management Manufacturing Support dentalaxess.com/xplan Patient Communication Track case progress with the Xplan dashboard and receive notifications when actions are required. Instant Changes Make changes to the proposed treatment plan in the web-based planning tool and submit for manufacturing. Increase patient acceptance using the web-based patient viewer. Choose to manufacture in-house or outsource to a third-party. Direct 3D printer inegration and automatic nesting. Outsource planning and design to a professional planning service. info.australia@dentalaxess.com NEWBOOK RELEASE ALERT! Orthodontic Aligner Treatment: A review of materials, clinical management, and evidence. By: Theodore Eliades, Athanasios E. Athanasiou A fantastic resource for any clinician who wants a contemporary insight into aligner treatment. It is also fantastic to a number of Australian clinicians contributing to this book including Prof Ali, Dr Tony Weir, Dr Blundell and Dr Eugene Chan amongst others. Now available for purchase from online book stores including Booktopia. com.au! N E W S