Prague | 22nd October 2021

Novel and sophisticated techniques have improved the outcome of both orthodontic closure and prosthetic replacement of missing teeth. Still the question remains whether to open or close agenesis sites. What are the steps leading to a decision? Furthermore, space opening and space closure require very different approaches in planning, treatment, retention and communication with other specialists.
The introduction of skeletal anchorage, was a game changer in orthodontics and treatment of agenesis. The limits of minimum anchorage could be extended towards “absolute” anchorage with no movement of the anchorage teeth. Even more extraordinary, moving the entire dentition including the incisors forward has become a possibility furthering a new concept: ultra-minimum anchorage.
The course will focus on both opening and closure from diagnosis and decision making moving to clinical management and biomechanics and finally to retention and communication with the implantologist and prosthodontist.

Morten Godtfredsen Laursen received his DDS from Aarhus University, Denmark in 2001. He qualified as a specialist in orthodontics in 2007 after attending the International Postgraduate Programme in Orthodontics at Aarhus University. Since 2007, Dr. Laursen is employed part time at the Section of Orthodontics, Aarhus University, where he is currently involved in teaching of pre- and post-graduate students and organization of the International Short-Term Course in Orthodontics. He has a private office limited to orthodontics in Aarhus, Denmark and he is provisional member of the Angle Society of Europe. His research is focused on the dento-alveolar-bone-complex and tooth movement. He is past-president of the European Postgraduate Student Orthodontic Society (EPSOS).