Why Comprehensive Cases Go Wrong Before They Begin
You plan the case when the patient has gone home. Dr. Elaine Halley on the one photograph that decides whether that is possible.
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This case is proof that the plan you start with is not always the plan you finish with.
You plan the case when the patient has gone home. Dr. Elaine Halley on the one photograph that decides whether that is possible.
To give the lateral a facial path of insertion, Dr. Amanda Seay would have had to cut away the mesial half of a virgin tooth. She found another way.

Every instinct says level it. Dr. Amanda Seay does the opposite, and shows a maxilla that reads straight without a single bracket. The trick is what the eye reaches for first.