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Tracking loss isn’t always about patient compliance.

Sometimes, the aligner looks perfectly seated but is delivering very little force. In other cases, the problem starts earlier — with sequencing, anchorage, or movements that work against each other.

When a case begins to drift, the key questions are:
→ Which tooth is falling behind?
→ Which movement is not expressing?
→ How large is the deviation?

The most useful comparison isn’t between the current result and the final setup. It’s between the patient’s actual tooth position and the planned position at the same stage of treatment.

That’s how a tracking issue becomes measurable — and how you make a more informed decision: continue with the current series, or stop, rescan, and reprint?

Dr. Luca Galli will break down this approach using real clinical cases and show how Matching in VISION can support the decision-making process.

Stop Losing Tracking: How to Use Matching to Reduce Unnecessary Refinements

September 29 · 12 PM EST
Registration link in bio.

A few moments from MASO with the SoftSmile team 🎤

Three days of conversations, new connections, and plenty of questions about what clinicians are looking for in clear aligner treatment today.

Between sessions, we caught up with our team to talk about what they hear most often from orthodontists — from dynamic occlusion and airway cases to Matching and treatment predictability.

Here’s a quick look at MASO from the show floor.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to meet the team and talk orthodontics with us!

A closer look at the program for Dr. Luca Galli’s September 29 webinar.

Stop Losing Tracking: How to Use Matching to Reduce Unnecessary Refinements will examine tracking loss from several clinical perspectives — not just patient compliance.

The program will cover:

→ Causes of tracking loss: compliance, material behavior, and difficult tooth movements

→ Treatment planning factors: sequencing, anchorage, and conflicting movements

→ Which movements may be more likely to fall behind

→ How to identify which tooth is off, which movement has not been achieved, and by how much

→ How to compare the patient’s actual position with the planned position

→ When to continue — and when to rescan and reprint

→ How Matching in SoftSmile VISION supports this evaluation

→ Real clinical cases and the decisions that followed

📅 September 29
🔗 Register via the link in bio.

Not every Class III case needs TADs or surgery. But knowing which cases don’t — and how to plan them — is the challenge.

On September 17, join Dr. Ly T. Mar, DMD, MSc, FRCD(C) for a practical look at treating Class III cases with clear aligners.

The session will focus on the decisions that matter most: case selection, biomechanics and staging, anchorage control — and recognizing when an aligner-only approach has reached its limits.

🎓 Earn 1 CE credit by attending live.

The Class III Aligner Playbook: Proven Strategies for Predictable Outcomes Without TADs or Surgery.

🔗 Register via the link in bio.

Real patient case: when tracking is lost, what do you do next?

At aligner 15, the patient was rescanned and the current tooth positions were compared with the original plan.

The result showed a clear discrepancy:
→ Anterior intrusion was achieved
→ Planned posterior extrusion was not

That difference matters.

Instead of simply moving on to the next set of aligners, the doctor can reassess treatment from the patient’s current position and decide what the next step should be.

On September 29, Dr. Luca Galli will go deeper into tracking loss, treatment progress, and the clinical decisions behind continuing, rescanning, or reprinting.

Join the webinar: Stop Losing Tracking: How to Use Matching to Reduce Unnecessary Refinements.

🔗 Register via the link in bio.