Advances in Orthodontics: Digital Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Craniofacial Growth, Skeletal Anchorage and Treatment Outcomes

Dear Colleagues,

Orthodontics is currently undergoing a profound transformation driven by digital technologies, artificial intelligence, advanced biomechanics, and skeletal anchorage systems. These innovations are changing the way orthodontic diagnosis, treatment planning, appliance design, and clinical decision-making are performed, enabling increasingly individualized, predictable, and efficient patient care.

Contemporary orthodontics also continues to build upon the biological principles established by Arne Björk, whose pioneering implant-based longitudinal studies on craniofacial growth laid the foundation for our current understanding of individual growth patterns. Today, digital imaging, three-dimensional analysis, and artificial intelligence provide unprecedented opportunities to refine growth prediction and personalize orthodontic treatment while further advancing these fundamental concepts.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest scientific and clinical advances that improve the quality, predictability, and long-term stability of orthodontic treatment. We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, and clinical studies focusing on digital workflows, CBCT-based diagnosis and treatment planning, artificial intelligence, three-dimensional imaging, customized appliances, clear aligner therapy, biomechanics, temporary anchorage devices (TADs), skeletal anchorage, interdisciplinary treatment, treatment efficiency, stability, and patient-reported outcomes.

We invite researchers and clinicians worldwide to submit their high-quality work and contribute to advancing evidence-based, biologically sound, and digitally supported orthodontic care.

Prof. Dr. Bartlomiej W. Loster
Guest Editor

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