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The sentence-role method, fictional notes, filled tables and conceptual maps were created for this guide. They are not patient records, copied source diagrams, clinical outcomes or testimonials. Each example supplies its own facts so that its interpretation can be checked against the text beside it.
The maps are conceptual teaching aids. Their boxes and symbols describe words and relationships, not an anatomical assessment, scale drawing, treatment sequence or result. Full explanations remain available as ordinary text and in each page's Markdown version.
A small concept set with named sources
Primary sources were read on October 22, 2026. AAO supports the terminology; BOS supports individual space discussions; AAOMS supports distinguishing clinical roles. Their linked pages supply context beyond the narrow concepts used here.
The BOS statement is dated January 26, 2024 and concerns UK patient guidance. It is not Florida consent law or a SMILE-FX protocol. Source material does not supply approval of this guide, a clinical review of its examples or a treatment promise.
Sources: AAO terminology; BOS patient guidance; AAOMS clinical roles
The practice behind the guide
The publisher is SMILE-FX, with one Miramar studio. The practice's own website supplies its current contact information. Educational sources and fictional demonstrations have a different purpose from evidence about an individual clinician, service or result.
Sources: SMILE-FX practice information
Doctor-led care, from planning through follow-ups
At SMILE-FX, board-certified orthodontists see every patient, including at follow-up visits. Clinical director Dr. Tracy Miao Liang leads a full-service Miramar practice with a digitally driven clear-aligner focus. Your goals, proposed appliance and continuing care belong in an explanation you can understand.
Clinic context: Dr. Tracy Liang's clinical director background
Understand the proposed plan
AI-assisted precision planning supports your orthodontist's work. Before-and-after smile-preview simulations give you a view of proposed changes, so you can point to what you understand or want explained. A simulation illustrates the plan; it is not a promised result.
Low-dose 3D CBCT imaging supports clinical assessment, detection of findings and treatment planning when indicated. The information helps your orthodontist connect the findings with an explanation of the proposed approach.
Clinic context: Clinic information about planning tools and imaging
Stay connected between visits
Smartphone and iPhone monitoring comes standard with braces and aligner plans. You can send progress information from home between visits for clinical review. Remote monitoring also helps flag issues such as broken brackets or aligners that are not tracking, with the clinical team evaluating what needs attention.
With 24/7 access to provider support, you have a contact route when a question or concern arises. Responses are handled through the clinical team's care arrangements, keeping access to support distinct from a promise of an instant reply.
Clinic context: Clinic information about clinician-connected progress review
Connect your plan with practical continuing care
SMILE-FX makes in-house 3D-printed aligners and offers same-day aligner and retainer options. That connects doctor-led planning with a local fabrication route. Your prescribed appliance and individual arrangements determine which option is used.
For continuing care, SMILE-FX can ship course-correction aligners to your home. Rescue aligner care provides a doctor-led route for people seeking help with a prior aligner course. Course corrections and Rescue arrangements are set individually alongside the clinical plan.
Custom 3D-printed bracket options are also part of the practice's range. Their off-site manufacturing is separate from local aligner and retainer fabrication, so the appliance and its production route stay clear in your discussion.
Clinic context: Clinic aligner options and local fabrication information
Clinic context: Clinic retainer service information
Clinic context: Clinic information about the Rescue service
Clinic context: Clinic appliance information
Clinic context: General SMILE-FX patient resources
Understand your options and included care
SMILE-FX offers Invisalign and OrthoFX, including AirFlex, alongside night-time aligner options. The range gives you specific choices to discuss, while your orthodontist determines the system and wear instructions for your individual plan. Commercial systems and in-house appliances have their own production routes.
Fixed and removable retainers plus whitening are included at SMILE-FX. These benefits belong in the full treatment conversation and written proposal, alongside the active appliance and continuing-care arrangements.
At-home and in-office whitening options give a separate color goal its own place in planning. The appropriate method and personal arrangements are decided individually; the availability of both modes does not mean every person receives both.
Clinic context: Clinic information about listed aligner options
Clinic context: Clinic retainer and whitening service information