- Invisalign ® Palatal Expanders supply medical doctors an efficient and simply detachable different to conventional palatal expanders, with out the necessity for metallic and screws.
- Mixed with Invisalign First™ aligners, Invisalign Palatal Expanders present medical doctors with a full early intervention remedy answer, together with each skeletal (orthopedic) and dental (orthodontic) arch enlargement.
HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Align Expertise, Inc. (Align) (Nasdaq: NASDAQ:), a number one world medical gadget firm that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign ® System of clear aligners, iTero™ intraoral scanners, and exocad™ CAD/CAM software program for digital orthodontics and restorative dentistry, right now introduced that Align’s Invisalign Palatal Expander System is now commercially accessible in Hong Kong for broad affected person applicability, together with rising youngsters, teenagers and adults (with surgical procedure or different strategies).
The Invisalign Palatal Expander System is a contemporary and revolutionary direct 3D printed gadget primarily based on proprietary and patented expertise. Invisalign Palatal Expanders are meant to be used in speedy enlargement and subsequent holding of skeletal and/or dental slim maxilla (higher jaw) with major, combined, or everlasting dentition throughout remedy of sufferers.
The Invisalign Palatal Expander System exemplifies our dedication to advancing digital orthodontics with revolutionary options that improve affected person remedy experiences, stated David Carr, Align Expertise govt vp and managing director, Asia Pacific. We’re excited to increase the provision of the transformative Invisalign Palatal Expander system, Align’s first direct 3D printed orthodontic equipment, to much more medical doctors and their sufferers throughout the Asia Pacific area.
The Invisalign Palatal Expander System consists of a collection of detachable gadgets staged in small increments of motion to increase a affected person’s slim maxilla to a place decided by their treating physician. Every direct 3D printed gadget is custom-made to the affected person’s distinctive anatomy primarily based on an iTero™ intraoral digital scan. A palatal enlargement remedy plan and gadget design are then developed utilizing Align’s proprietary AI-driven orthodontic software program.
Mixed with Invisalign First™ aligners, Invisalign Palatal Expanders present medical doctors with a full early intervention remedy answer for Part 1 remedy, an early interceptive orthodontic remedy for younger sufferers. Part 1 remedy is historically completed by means of arch expanders or partial metallic braces, earlier than all everlasting enamel have erupted “ usually at ages 6 by means of 10. Invisalign First clear aligners are designed particularly to deal with a broad vary of youthful sufferers’ malocclusions, together with shorter scientific crowns, administration of erupting dentition, and predictable dental arch enlargement.
Part 1 or early interceptive remedy accounts for 20 % of orthodontic case begins annually and is rising, stated Dr. Mitra Derakhshan, Align Expertise govt vp, chief scientific officer. Along with Invisalign First aligners, Invisalign Palatal Expanders present medical doctors with an answer set to deal with the most typical skeletal and dental malocclusions in rising youngsters. The addition of mandibular development options to Invisalign aligners additionally gives medical doctors with extra choices for treating skeletal and dental jaw imbalances and chunk correction for his or her rising sufferers throughout their teenage years.
The Invisalign Palatal Expander System is obtainable in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and is predicted to be accessible in extra APAC markets later in 2024, pending regulatory approvals.
About Align Expertise, Inc.
Align Expertise designs and manufactures the Invisalign ® System, one of many world’s most superior clear aligner programs, iTero™ intraoral scanners and companies, and exocad™ CAD/CAM software program. These expertise constructing blocks allow enhanced digital orthodontic and restorative workflows to enhance affected person outcomes and apply efficiencies for over 266 thousand physician prospects and is essential to accessing Align’s 600 million client market alternative worldwide. Over the previous 27 years, Align has helped medical doctors deal with over 18.2 million sufferers with the Invisalign System and is driving the evolution in digital dentistry by means of the Align Digital Platform™, our built-in suite of distinctive, proprietary applied sciences and companies delivered as a seamless, end-to-end answer for sufferers and customers, orthodontists and GP dentists, and lab/companions. Go to www.aligntech.com for extra data.
For extra details about the Invisalign System, please go to www.invisalign.com.hk. For extra details about the iTero digital scanning system, please go to www.itero.com/en-APAC. For extra details about exocad dental CAD/CAM choices and an inventory of exocad reseller companions, please go to www.exocad.com.
Invisalign, iTero, exocad, Align, and Align Digital Platform are emblems of Align Expertise, Inc.
Knowledge on file at Align Expertise, as of September 23, 2020
Concerning the Invisalign Palatal Expander System
The Invisalign Palatal Expander System is a contemporary, revolutionary direct 3D printed orthodontic equipment designed primarily based on proprietary and patented expertise. The Invisalign Palatal Expander System is meant for the orthodontic remedy of malocclusion. The system is used for the speedy enlargement and subsequent holding of skeletal and/or dental slim maxilla (higher jaw, dental arch and enamel, palate) with major, combined, or everlasting dentition throughout orthopedic remedy in youngsters or adolescents. In adults, it’s for use at the side of surgical procedure or different interventions when needed. Units are 3D printed and are manufactured primarily based on digital scan knowledge from commercially accessible iTero™ intraoral scanners supplied by Align Expertise, Ltd. The gadgets are detachable for higher oral hygiene1; manufactured to customized match every affected person’s anatomy for optimum consolation and aesthetics, expanders match comfortably within the affected person’s mouth and are modified each day (no screw required).
The System is comprised of Invisalign Palatal Expanders (energetic enlargement, every stage comes with a programmed enlargement of as much as 0.25mm/stage, modified each day or as per physician’s discretion) and Invisalign Palatal Holders (copies of the final stage ‹of the enlargement part designed to carry the maxilla post-active enlargement and altered each 2-4 weeks as directed by the treating physician), Invisalign Attachment Templates and proprietary 3D form technology software program. These merchandise should not accessible for buy by most people. Nevertheless, the merchandise can be found for buy from Invisalign ® educated dentists and orthodontists.
1Based on the survey in August 2023 in CAN of 10 Invisalign educated orthodontists who participated within the Invisalign ® Palatal Expander System Technical Design Evaluation and have handled not less than 1 affected person age 6-11 years with IPE, who responded to the query: Please point out your settlement with the next assertion: Sufferers handled with the Invisalign ® Palatal Expander System expertise higher oral hygiene than these sufferers handled with conventional palatal expanders (comparable to Schwartz, Hyrax, and many others.). Settlement scale is 1-4 with 1 being strongly disagree and 4 being strongly agree. Knowledge on file at Align Expertise, as of October 30, 2023.
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