What is the best retention after a treatment with clear aligners?

What is the best retention after a treatment with clear aligners? What is the best protocol? Is it better to use fixed bonded retainers or removable appliances?
Everybody has their secret or their special recipe. But on what based these recipes? Clinical experience or scientific evidence?
Retention is the phase of treatment where we try to keep the teeth in their final position after orthodontic treatment. If we don’t do it, teeth will have a tendency to move and to return to their original position. This is what we call a relapse.
The answers you will find in this video might surprise you. And stay till the end where we tell you the most important thing you have to remember, a recommendation from Dr. Simon Littlewood, THE reference in orthodontic retention. You have the links for interesting articles after the timestamps (below).
⏲Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:55 What is retention
1:03 What is a relapse
1:15 Causes of relapse
1:42 The questions we ask
2:02 Clinical opinion and scientific evidence
2:16 Is there a recipe?
2:43 Scientific literature
3:01 Cochrane on retention
3:30 What I tell my patients
4:16 What is the best type of retention?
5:01 How to decide what type of retention
5:10 Types of movement
5:24 The problem with spaces
6:02 Advantages and disadvantages
6:15 Patients compliance
6:57 Advantage of bonded wire
7:12 Interesting articles
7:35 Conclusion of the articles
8:37 Things to consider.
9:25 Recommendation for bonded retainers
9:38 The C.L.E.A.R. Institute’s protocol for retention
10:18 Another interesting RCT
10:47 THE reference in retention
11:11 The most important thing
11:45 Importance of the team
12:11 Conclusion… and the last tip!
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Articles from the European Journal of Orthodontics (EJO):
Five years post retention 3 methods
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Bonded retainers vs Vacuum Formed retainers part I and II
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👀bit.ly/ejoretentionpart2
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[@jacquelines3685]

I wish you were my Dentist!!!
My Dentist is Awesome though..but Invisalign is New to me & I just want it done right! Thanks for your videos...I have great questions for my Dentist & he always looks so amazed the questions I ask him🤣👍🏾

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That is really funny 😄

[@gnathosCE]

Very nicely done and with compliments

[@gnathosCE]

Very nicely done, indeed and with compliments

[@onlinee-learning8653]

Excellent structure and delivery of the topic. In a mode of Edutainment :) high long term retention of information as well Dr Stephane Reinhardt:) S

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Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it! Don't keep it a secret 😉

[@onlinee-learning8653]

I find that we need to be cognizant of personality of the patient and future expectations, certainly malocclusion at time of correction /heredity as well. Multifactorial hence its challenging to find one fit all. Memotain retainers give excellence lingual fit bonded retainer created with CADCAM NiTi.Just thought needed to share as was introduced to Memotain in Berlin :) S

[@theCLEARinstitute]

We agree Memotain seems indeed promising and a good solution for lingual bonded retainer. Looking forward to some clinical studies on this subject.