The Orthodontic Mini-implant Clinical Handbook

Richard Cousley is a Consultant Orthodontist at the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and in private specialist practice. He is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthodontics and a Membership in Orthodontics examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Richard has pioneered mini-implant usage in the UK since 2003 and designed the InfinitasTM mini-implant system. He has published numerous clinical papers on bone anchorage techniques, and has been an invited lecturer at British, European and American orthodontic conferences and university programmes. Most recently he became the UK clinical advisor for an orthodontic aligner company.

Preface 1. Mini-implant Principles and Potential Complications 2. Maximising Mini-implant Success: Clinical Factors 3. Maximising Mini-implant Success: Design Factors 4. Introducing Mini-implants to Your Clinical Practice 5. Planning and Insertion Techniques 6. Incisor Retraction 7. Molar Distalisation 8. Molar Protraction 9. Intrusion and Anterior Openbite Treatments 10. Transverse and Asymmetry Corrections 11. Orthognathic Surgical Uses Index