MODULE I - 17-19 July 2025
SWM Introduction
Dr. Davide MIRABELLA
Straight Wire Technique
✓ Historical review
✓ Andrews Six Keys to Normal Occlusion
✓ Pre-adjusted appliances: Tip, Torque, In-Out, Distal Offset
From SWA to SWM
✓ Bracket Prescription: The advantages of MBT®/SWM
✓ Proposed changes
✓ Versatility of SWM prescription
Bracket Placement
✓ SWM Positioning Chart
✓ Individualized Positioning Chart
✓ Clinical tips
✓ Bonding and banding procedures
✓ Bonding and banding adhesive
Treatment Mechanics
✓ Light forces and Anchorage Control
✓ Lacebacks, Bendbacks, Tiebacks
✓ Advantages and clinical applications
SWM: the four stages of orthodontic treatment
✓ Aligning: Check-List
✓ Leveling: Check-List
✓ Working: Check-List
✓ Finishing: Check-List
Arch Wires
✓ What alloys should we use?
✓ Arch Form and Coordination
✓ Suggested arch wire sequence
✓ Una-Form: a newly proposed arch form based on resear
Hands-on
✓ Bracket placement
✓ Lacebacks, Bendbacks, Tiebacks
✓ Archwire management
MODULE II - 12-14 September 2025
From Diagnosis to Treatment Plan
Dr. Enzo PASCIUTI
First Visit
✓ Anamnesis
✓ Diagnostic records
✓ X-Rays
✓ Photos
Aesthetic Analysis
✓ Arnett and Sarver principles
✓ Frontal-view Analysis
✓ Profile Analysis
Model Analysis
✓ Tooth size discrepancy (Bolton Index)
✓ Dento-alveolar discrepancy
✓ Dento-alveolar disarmonies
Cephalometric Analysis
✓ McLaughlin Cephalometric Analysis
✓ NHP and Cephalometrics
✓ Soft-Tissue Cephalometric Analysis
Guided Treatment Planning (GTP)
✓ Treatment Objectives
✓ Diagnostic Dental VTO
✓ Problem List with Treatment Alternatives
✓ Therapeutic Dental VTO
Hands-on
✓ Photos
✓ Model Analysis
✓ Cephalo
MODULE III - 13-15 March 2026
Treatment of Class I Malocclusions, Transverse Discrepancies and Deep-bite
Dr. Enzo PASCIUTI
Treatment of Angle Class I
✓ Extraction or dental expansion: an overview
✓ Space closure using Sliding Mechanics: biomechanics and problem solving
✓ Mixed dentition cases: how to manage severely crowded patients
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Transverse Discrepancies
✓ Dental and skeletal components of transverse malocclusions
✓ Dental and skeletal midlines: diagnostic role
✓ The importance of the Curve of Wilson
✓ Maxillary Expansion: dental, skeletal, surgical
✓ Timing of maxillary expansion
✓ Dental and Skeletal Effects
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Treatment of Vertical Discrepancies (Deep-bite)
✓ Skeletal and dental deep-bite
✓ Bite openings curves
✓ Bite planes and bite ramps
✓ Vertical growth modifications
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Finishing Hands-on
✓ First Order Bends
✓ Second Order Bends
✓ Third Order Bends
MODULE IV - TBD
Treatment of Class II Malocclusions, Impacted Canines and TADs
Dr. Luca LOMBARDO
Treatment of Angle Class II
✓ Craniofacial Growth: an overview
✓ Early treatment: advantages and disadvantages
✓ Orthopaedic treatment and functional therapy
✓ Distalizing mechanics and Dento-alveolar treatments
✓ Extraction patterns: biomechanical strategies and aesthetics
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Treatment of Impacted Canines
✓ Diagnosis with OPT, CT, CBCT
✓ Management of palatally and bucally impacted canines
TADs
✓ Insertion sites
✓ Surgical Procedure
✓ Clinical case discussion
Aligner Therapy
✓ Case selection
✓ Potential and limitations of aligners
✓ Treatment of growing patients
✓ Clinical management
✓ Treatment of complex cases by hybrid approach
Hands-on
✓ How to adjust a Klohen Bow
✓ Mouse-trap bend
MODULE V - 3-5 September 2026
Treatment of Open-bite, Class III Malocclusions and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Dr. Davide MIRABELLA - Dr. Gabriella GIUNTA
Treatment of Vertical Discrepancies (Open-bite)
✓ Skeletal and dental open-bite: differential diagnosis
✓ Vertical growth control
✓ Tongue crib: when to use it
✓ RPE with Bite-Block
✓ Surgical options
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Treatment of Angle Class III
✓ Craniofacial growth: an overview
✓ Early treatment: advantages and disadvantages
✓ Orthopaedic treatment: Protraction Mask
✓ Dento-alveolar treatment
✓ Extraction patterns: biomechanical strategies and aesthetics
✓ Surgical options
✓ Presentation of Clinical Cases
Concepts of Smile Aestetics
✓ Dental Proportions
✓ Gingival Architecture
✓ Smile’s aesthetic features
Dental Anomalies: number and shape
✓ Open or close the space?
✓ Timing of implant placement
✓ The optimal biomechanics to open the space for missing upper lateral incisors
✓ Veneering a tooth: what an orthodontist should know?
The Ortho-Restorative Patient
✓ The Biologic width
✓ Uneven gingival margin and crown length: Differential diagnosis
✓ Uneven gingival margin and crown length: Orthodontic treatment
✓ Uneven gingival margin and crown length: Interdisciplinary treatment
✓ Orthodontic treatment in the multiple missing posterior teeth patient
The Ortho-Perio Patient
✓ What an orthodontist should know
✓ Altered passive eruption
✓ Altered active eruption
✓ Orthodontic treatment in the compromised periodontal patient
✓ Piezosurgery: its application to enhance orthodontic treatment
Orthodontic Implant Site Development
✓ What an orthodontist should know on bone biology
✓ Surgical approach Vs OISD: advantages and disadvantages
✓ Orthodontic Implant Site Development in the 3 planes of space:
horizontal, vertical and linguo-labial orthodontic movement
✓ OISD: a systemized clinical protocol
The Gummy Smile
✓ What is a Gummy Smile?
✓ What is the “ideal”?
✓ Diagnostic Criteria
✓ Orthodontic Clinical Strategies
✓ Perio-Restorative Clinical Strategies
✓ Orthognathic-Surgical Clinical Strategies