Add Buttons
Setting up for your appointment
Here are the instruments/materials that you will need:
- Aligners that the patient is supposed to switch to
- Air/water syringe
- Mirror & Explorer
- Scaler
- Composite filling instrument
- Buttons
- Suction tip
- Rubber dam cheek retractor (or NOLA)
- Microbrush
- Dental etch
- Bonding agent
- Composite resin
- Buttons
- Curing light
1. Read any notes in the Office Visit
See if the Orthodontist has left any notes for this Office Visit.
2. Access the iOrtho simulation
- If you need help finding your iOrtho simulation click here
- Select in the simulation bar below the aligner number that the patient is supposed to go into next. This stage should be marked in red on the bar. Now you can move the simulation around to see on which teeth you need to place buttons (a light blue cutout window will appear on one or multiple teeth). Make sure to also check the lingual surfaces for possible cutout windows.
- Alternatively, you can find where new buttons are placed in the papers provided in your aligner box.
3. Bond the buttons
Here is a video if you need a reminder on bonding buttons:
*Remember to start by seating the aligners that the patient is supposed to go in next.
4. Give the aligners and the supplies to your patient
See if the patient is running out of aligners or elastics.
5. Resume monitoring
Click on the monitoring “Resume” button and select tomorrow’s date.
6. Write clinical notes and update Visit status
Click on “Mark Complete” and add any notes to the Office Visit if any of the planned actions could not be done as planned (e.g. was able to only performed x.x mm of IPR between teeth #… , …).
Make sure that you checked all the to-do list and dismiss the patient.