Integrating MARPE with Clear Aligners

 

On-Demand Course | 8 CE Credits | Watch On Your Schedule

Stop Watching Cases Relapse. Start Diagnosing the Real Problem.

Modern orthodontic-minded dentistry is changing. The clinicians getting the best long-term results aren't just moving teeth into a nicer-looking arch; they're diagnosing why the arch was too narrow in the first place.

Transverse deficiency affects roughly a third of the population, and it's routinely underdiagnosed. Treat it with aligners alone, and you're often just flaring teeth over a skeletal problem, which is exactly why so many "successful" cases relapse.

Recorded live and taught by Dr. Lena Sapozhnikoff, this course gives you the full clinical experience (diagnosis, appliance mechanics, lab communication, and integration with Invisalign) without blocking off a weekend.

 

What You'll Walk Away Able to Do

This isn't theory. It's a practical, real-world framework you can implement immediately:

  • Diagnose transverse deficiency clinically and on CBCT, and know when it's a true skeletal problem versus a dental compensation
  • Determine candidacy for TAD-supported (bone-anchored) expansion versus traditional approaches
  • Plan and place MARPE appliances with confidence, from initial CBCT measurement to lab communication
  • Recognize the signs it's working, including reading the midline diastema as your confirmation the suture has opened
  • Integrate expansion with Invisalign case design, so you're not fighting a skeletal problem with tooth movement alone
  • Manage the small diastema that follows expansion as a normal, expected part of the clear aligner phase
  • Handle complications and referrals, including when a case needs a surgical approach instead

You'll leave with a repeatable protocol, not just a list of appliance options.

 

 

 You'll get 8 CE credits and 6 months of access, so you can watch it once or come back to it whenever you need a refresher. Bring your whole team along at no extra cost, and walk away with a full library of downloadable, editable patient questionnaires ready to use in your practice.

The future of orthodontic-minded dentistry starts with the maxilla. And it starts with you.