IPR

Setting up for your appointment

Here are the instruments/materials that you will need:

• Air/water syringe
• Mirror & Explorer
• IPR strips/handle/disk
• IPR measuring gauge
• Dental floss

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 

1. If you need help finding your iOrtho simulation click here
2. 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 between which teeth you need to perform IPR (a blue diamond sign will appear between one or multiple teeth).
3. Alternatively, you can find where IPR needs to be performed in the papers provided in your aligner box.

3. Perform the IPR

Here is a video if you need a reminder on bonding attachments:

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.