Maestro 3D Ortho Studio - User Manual

This document is intended to introduce the user, in a simple and quick way, to the use of the Ortho Studio software. Please read this manual carefully before making use of the Ortho Studio software.

Maestro 3D Ortho Studio is a very powerful and easy to use software for orthodontics. The principal features available are:

• Patient, Surgery And Doctor info handling using AGE DB.
• Choice of local origo of mandibular and maxillary arcs.
• Virtual base creation / modification and stitching to mandibular and maxillary arcs.
• Virtual Setup.
• Occlusion inspection between mandibular and maxillary models.
• Analysis of distance, measures and sections.

To install the Maestro 3D Ortho Studio software, double click with left mouse button on the file: Maestro.3D.Ortho.Studio.vx.xx.xxx.Setup.exe which is in the CD\DVD.

Step 1: Select the installation language.

Step 2: A welcome installation window of Maestro 3D Ortho Studio appears. Press Next to continue.

Step 3: Please read the license agreement carefully, accept it as shown in the red circle and press Next to continue.

Step 4: Select the destination folder. (We recommend to use the default folder). Press Next to continue.

Step 5: Select the menu start folder. (We recommend to use the default folder). Press Next to continue.

Step 6: Select, if desidered, a program icon on the desktop and into the quick launch bar. Press Next to continue.

Step 7: At this point a summary of installation information appears. Press Install to install the software.

A progress bar shows the progress of the installation process. Step 8: Installation complete. Press Finish to complete the installation.

The main toolbar allows to access to all the functionalities of the Ortho Studio Software.

The bottom toolbar is the area of the screen containing a progress bar that is displayed and updated during each computation of the program and the controls for changing the visual settings of the visualization / editing area.

The visualization / editing area is the area of the window in which the models are visualized and all the editing operations are performed.

In the visualization area it is possible to create virtual bases, show the occlusion inspection between maxillary and mandibular arcs, measure distance between teeth and to perform virtual setup.

In order to examine the models displayed in the visualization / editing area camera parameters (position, scale and rotation) can be setted using an instrument called trackball.

The trackball is very simple to use. Just use the Left mouse button dragging to rotate around the model, the mouse wheel to Zoom in / Zoom out and the Right mouse dragging to move (pan) the camera.

The info area of the screen shows the info related to the current Case. In particular the info about Surgery, Doctor and Patient are displayed, also with the Case ID.

To create a new case press the New Case button located in the main toolbar. The process of creating a new case consists in the following steps:

• specify the Surgery data (optional)
• specify the Doctor data (optional)
• specify the Patient data (optional)
• specify the relationship between Surgery, Doctor and Patient (optional)
• choose maxillary and mandibular models (required)

To create a new Surgery press the Add new surgery button, located in the left side of the screen. After filling the fields of the form that appears in the main side of the screen specifying the data of the Surgery, press the Insert button to add the new Surgery to the database or the Clear button to clear the fields of the form.

In the same way it is possible to create a new doctor pressing the Add new doctor button and to create a new patient pressing the Add new patient button. In order to define a Case it is necessary to press the Select patient button located in the left side of the screen.

In the main side of the screen now it is possible to make the relationship between Surgery, Doctor and Patient. The first half of the main screen area allows to make the relationships between Surgery, Doctor and Patient (see picture below).

Select the surgery from combobox. The Delete button allows to delete the surgery currently selected. Please note that when pressing the Delete button the Surgery definition is phisically removed from the Database of the Surgeries.