THE ORTHODONTICS MINI IMPLANT CLINICAL HANDBOOK

Cousley, an orthodontist in the UK, presents a handbook on mini-implants for skeletal anchorage reinforcement for trainee and practicing orthodontists and dental and surgical colleagues. He discusses principles and potential complications, clinical and design factors for success, patient consent, staff training, patient selection, planning and insertion techniques, and the principles, planning considerations, treatment options, and clinical steps for incisor retraction, molar distalization, molar protraction, intrusion and anterior openbite treatments, transverse and asymmetry corrections, and orthognathic surgical uses. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard Cousley is a Consultant Orthodontist at the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and in private specialist practice. He is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthodontics and a Membership in Orthodontics examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons (England).

Richard has pioneered mini-implant usage in the UK since 2003 and designed the Infinitas^TM mini-implant system. He has published numerous clinical papers on bone anchorage techniques, and has been an invited lecturer at British, European and American orthodontic conferences and university programmes. Most recently he became the UK clinical advisor for an orthodontic aligner company.