Aligner design software: plan in five minutes, deliver in one hour.

Bringing aligners in-house has been treated as a project that only large practices can afford to attempt. The reasons given are operational, not clinical. Scan cleanup is slow. Tooth setup needs an expert. Staging logic and attachment placement feel like engineering rather than dentistry. Complex orthodontics — extractions, miniscrews, occlusal corrections — get pushed back as "out of scope for in-house." So even a routine aligner case becomes a two-week round trip with a large brand: portal upload, wait, plan returned, revisions through a portal, wait again.

The GuideMia Clinic Edition playbook is built around eliminating the bottlenecks, not working around them.

The three components of the chairside orthodontic software

• OrthoClic — the chairside orthodontic software. Scans are auto-detected from a local or cloud folder, repaired automatically (hole filling, noise removal, artefact handling without distortion), and segmented by AI. Automatic tooth setup runs immediately; real-time treatment simulation and patient-friendly animation turn the plan itself into a case-acceptance tool. About five minutes from scan to plan.
• OrthoPlus — the clear aligner software for production design. The approved chairside plan imports directly into OrthoPlus. One-click automatic staging with built-in safety thresholds. Automatic attachment design optimised per movement. Automatic generation of dental arch models for thermoforming, and direct-print aligner geometry — no manual CAD cleanup. Models for any treatment step can be regenerated when the plan changes mid-treatment.
• Cympha — case management. Every scan, plan, photo, instruction, and approval lives on one case record. The same case routes to a partner lab when caseload spikes — without re-uploading anything.

The five bottlenecks the playbook eliminates

1. Scan data processing. All-in-one repair and AI segmentation. One click, not an hour of mesh editing.
2. Tooth setup. Automatic initial positioning from occlusal relationships, arch form, and treatment objectives. Manual refinement with real-time visual feedback when needed — minutes, not a designer's afternoon.
3. Staging & attachment design. One-click automation. Intelligent movement distribution with safety thresholds; attachment shape, size, and placement optimised per movement. Clinician keeps final approval.
4. Advanced cases. Tooth extractions, implant-assisted orthodontics, occlusal corrections (bite opening, occlusion jumps, vertical and sagittal corrections), complex multi-phase staging — all supported in a single digital plan, not bumped to a manual queue.
5. Model & aligner output. Arch models and direct-print aligner geometry generated automatically from the approved plan. Geometry optimised for fabrication accuracy and clinical fit. Retainers generated automatically from final tooth positions.

The "aligner in an hour" path

1. Scan the patient.
2. Automatic scan repair and AI segmentation.
3. Automatic setup, staging, attachments.
4. Review the plan chairside with the patient.
5. Print first-stage model or direct-print aligner.
6. Deliver same day or next visit.

The hybrid model — when caseload spikes

OrthoClic in every operatory and a central OrthoPlus is the multi-room configuration. When in-house capacity is the constraint on a given day, the case routes to a partner lab through Cympha. The lab inherits the doctor's chairside plan, the patient's scans and photos, the captured camera frames the doctor used to explain the case — not a folder of STLs to re-interpret. Design comes back into the same case record. Approval and version history are preserved.

What this changes for clinicians

• Chairside case acceptance. Patients see the plan as a 3D animation, not a typed treatment letter.
• Same-day or next-visit aligners. Aligner-in-an-hour collapses the consultation-to-delivery cycle from weeks to a single appointment for first-stage cases.
• Mid-course corrections. Treatment plans can be modified at any stage and aligners regenerated without restarting the workflow.
• Advanced cases stay in the plan. Extractions, miniscrews, occlusal corrections — supported by the same workflow that handles routine alignment.

What this changes for partner labs

• Overflow cases arrive with intent attached. Doctor's chairside plan, screenshots, distance measurements, and instructions travel with the case — not separately in an email thread.
• Version control. Every revision and approval is recorded against the case, not against an email.
• Co-planning rather than re-creating. The lab designer opens the case at the doctor's exact view and refines, instead of rebuilding the doctor's mental model from raw STLs.
• Per-case billing. Built into the workflow rather than tracked in a parallel spreadsheet.

Try it

Read the full Clinic Edition cookbook on the GuideMia site, subscribe to OrthoClic and OrthoPlus at gm.cympha.com, and book a walkthrough on one of your own cases through the form below.

Part of Dental Case Lifecycle Management. Cympha runs every dental case as one tracked record — intake to outcome, across every doctor, lab, and supplier — instead of a dozen disconnected tools. What is DCLM? →