New frontiers in the field of functional orthodontics: Efficiency of the invisalign mandibular advancer in the treatment of Class II mandibular retrusion
Dr. Meuli graduated in Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome in 1994 and specialised in Orthodontics at the same university in 1998. She was awarded a scholarship at the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, in 1999. She has been Adjunct Professor at the School of Specialisation in Orthodontics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome since 1999. She attended the Lingual Orthodontics course of Dr. Fillion in Paris in 1999; she received the Article Award for: "The craniofacial architectural evolution in a unilateral cleft lip and palate subject: a longitudinal study", European Federation of Orthodontics (FEO), Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2002;
she also received the First Place Prize - poster session of Orthodontics 2 "Adjustment of rotational typologies according to Petrovic in Italian patients" during the X National Congress of the Board of Professors of Odontology, Rome, Italy, 2003; the Rossana Alessio Award for the best clinical case in Tweed-Merrifield Technique presented in the Model Display Session, XVII International SIDO Congress, Rimini, in 2003.
Invisalign certified since 2005, she is Diamond I and has been speaker for Align Technology since 2013.
Invisalign treatment with mandibular advancement allows treating growing adolescents with Class II malocclusion due to mandibular retrusion that requires advancement of the jaw; the great advantage of the appliance compared with traditional functional appliances lies in the possibility of performing dental alignment at the same time as mandibular advancement movement, a factor that should not be underestimated especially considering that it can encourage and stimulate the compliance in the growing patient.