August 2025 Issue Highlights Practical Invisalign Mechanics: Crowding The second installment in Dr. Glaser’s series on managing common problems with Invisalign explains the biomechanical principles underlying the treatment of dental crowding and applies them to the case of a growing patient with significant crowding and a deep overbite.

August 2025 Issue Highlights Correction of Upper Midline Deviations with the Mesial-Distalslider Drs. De Felice, Caruso, Drescher, and Wilmes describe the use of the Mesial-Distalslider, which corrects asymmetry by combining the mechanics of the Beneslider and the Mesialslider to simultaneously distalize on one side of the upper arch and mesialize on the other.

August 2025 Issue Highlights Skeletally Supported Upper-Arch Intrusion for Nonsurgical Treatment of Open Bite and Gummy Smile in High-Angle Patients Drs. Braga and Bocchieri present a nonsurgical approach to treating patients with high-angle facial patterns, gummy smiles, and open bites: an appliance supported by two palatal miniscrews is used for differential intrusion of the entire upper arch, promoting counterclockwise mandibular rotation.

August 2025 Issue Highlights CASE REPORT Management of a Geminated Tooth and Supernumeraries in a Patient with Acromesomelic Dysplasia, Maroteaux Type CHANG, AZAMI, CHEN, YADAV PEARLS Selecting Which Tooth to Extract in Mandibular Incisor Extraction Cases KRAVITZ, MILLER DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE Case #10, Part 1: Presentation NOBLE CASE REPORT Treatment of an Ankylosed Impacted Canine with Surgical Luxation and Orthodontic Traction BOLOOKI, AHMED DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE Case #9, Part 2: Treatment ROGERS, PIACSEK, TREMONT, ABDELWAHAB, GLENN DIGITAL PEARLS Polishing the Edges of Rapid Palatal Expanders for Comfort COLLINS Complete table of contents