What is the difference between OrthoPlus and OrthoClic?

Same engine, different operator. OrthoClic is the chairside orthodontic software for the clinician: a plan in minutes, ready to present and hand off. OrthoPlus is the full system with design and manufacturing output, for clinics that design their own cases and for labs.

Does the orthodontic software need a CBCT?

No. An intra-oral scan is enough to segment, stage and design. When a CBCT is available, roots and bone are added to the model so movement is planned against the anatomy that limits it.

Can it output direct-print aligners as well as models for thermoforming?

Both, from the same approved plan, and both for a hybrid case where some stages are printed and some thermoformed. Retainers are generated from the final stage.

How long does a clear aligner case take?

For a medium-complexity case, OrthoPlus finishes preparation in about a minute and the treatment plan plus a set of aligner models in about five. Bracket placement and bonding-guide design take another two.

Can a lab run it at production scale?

Yes. Batch processing handles case folders unattended, trim paths and laser-marking data flow to the production line, and AlignerBot automates the design queue.

Can it design fixed appliances as well as aligners?

Yes. OrthoPlus places brackets on the digital setup and generates indirect bonding trays and arch models, plus anchorage implant guides. Any bracket brand works, because the approach relies on the slot and the tooth rather than the bracket's outer shape.

Which printers and scanners does it work with?

Any. Input is STL, PLY or OBJ from any scanner and DICOM from any CBCT; output is STL for any printer. There is no tied consumable and no proprietary file format between you and your own equipment.

Is the orthodontic software cleared for clinical use?

GuideMia OrthoPlus is FDA 510(k) cleared under K162850 and is developed under an ISO 13485 certified quality system.

Orthodontic software

Orthodontic software for clear aligners, bracket bonding and chairside planning

GuideMia orthodontic software plans tooth movement with the roots and bone in view, stages it automatically, and produces the appliance that delivers it — clear aligners for thermoforming or direct printing, bracket bonding trays and anchorage guides, ready for your own printer.

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GuideMia OrthoPlus orthodontic software showing a staged aligner setup with roots and bone from CBCT

Clear aligner software

Automatic segmentation and staging, attachments, arch models for thermoforming or direct-print aligners, and AlignerBot batch design.

Clear aligner software

Bracket bonding software

Bracket placement by tooth or arch curve, bonding guides in six styles including ADB jigs and acid etching guides, indirect bonding models and anchorage implant guides.

Bracket bonding software

Orthodontic software used to mean a crown-only setup: segment the intra-oral scan, move the crowns, and hope the roots follow. GuideMia OrthoPlus fuses CBCT with the intra-oral and facial scans so the plan is made on a complete anatomical model — crowns, roots, alveolar bone and soft tissue together. Movement is staged against what the bone will allow, and the same plan drives every appliance type rather than one.

GuideMia ships two orthodontic software products on one engine. OrthoPlus is the full design system, for clinics that design their own cases and for labs and aligner manufacturers running production. OrthoClic is the chairside planner: a treatment plan in minutes, a simulation the patient understands, and a hand-off to whoever does the design. GuideMia OrthoPlus is FDA 510(k) cleared (K162850); both products are developed under an ISO 13485 certified quality system.

Clear aligners are the larger half of that work, and the automation is where the time goes or does not. AlignerBot runs segmentation, setup, staging, attachment placement, model generation and trim-path creation from a single click: a medium case is prepared in about a minute and planned, with a full set of aligner models, in about five. The output is fabrication-ready on both manufacturing paths — arch models per stage for thermoforming, or direct-print aligner geometry, which OrthoPlus was the first system to generate automatically. Gingiva is morphed from the original scan rather than a smoothed approximation, and that is what decides whether a direct-printed aligner seats at the margin.

What the orthodontic software does

AI segmentation of crowns from intra-oral scans and of teeth, roots and bone from CBCT, fused into one model
Automatic tooth setup and movement staging, with IPR, extractions, expansion and attachments under your control
Attachments sized and placed per movement, editable tooth by tooth
Bracket simulation and automatic bracket placement for indirect bonding
Cephalometric tracing and AI-assisted treatment recommendations
Arch models for thermoforming and direct-print aligner geometry from the same plan, with trim paths, laser-marking data and retainers from the final stage
Batch processing of case folders and AlignerBot automation for a design queue
Treatment plan review, reports and patient presentation — in the software, or in the browser through Cympha Studio

What you bring in

Orthodontic software runs on the models first. A CBCT is welcome and often decisive, but it is optional; a face scan is an addition rather than a requirement.

Intraoral scan: STL, PLY or OBJ from any intraoral scanner: both arches and the bite. This is the one input every orthodontic case needs.
Stone model scan: A desktop optical scan of the cast, for practices that do not scan chairside. Same requirements as the intraoral scan.
CBCT (DICOM) — optional: Bring it when roots, an impacted tooth, alveolar bone limits or a skeletal question decide the plan. Without it the crowns still move; with it you can see what the roots do.
Face scan — additional: For smile design, and for checking the setup against the facial midline and the smile line rather than against the arch alone.
Photographs and radiographs: The diagnostic records, and the material a patient is actually shown.
Antagonist and bite: The opposing arch and the bite, because the finish is an occlusion and not an arch.
Attachment, bracket and appliance libraries: Attachments, buttons, brackets and bracket prescriptions, from any brand.
Restorative CAD models: Planned crowns or veneers, so a case that ends in restorative work has the end in view from the first stage.

An orthodontic case, step by step

The workflow is the same in OrthoClic and OrthoPlus; OrthoPlus adds the design and manufacturing steps.

01
Import
Open the intra-oral scan, and the CBCT and facial scan if you have them. Model cleanup, hole filling and base trimming run in one pass.
02
Segment
Crowns are segmented automatically. With a CBCT, roots and alveolar bone are added so each tooth is a complete object.
03
Stage
The orthodontic software proposes a setup and stages the movement. Adjust targets tooth by tooth, set IPR and attachments, and step through the sequence.
04
Design
Generate aligner models for every stage, direct-print aligners, or bracket bonding trays. Anchorage implant guides use the same guide engine as Implant Master.
05
Make
Export STL to the printer already in the practice or the lab, and share the plan with the patient, the referrer or the manufacturer.

Three seats, one engine

The same underlying engine in three arrangements. Pick by who operates it and how much design depth the practice actually does.

Design

GuideMia OrthoPlus

The full seat: segmentation, staging, interproximal reduction, attachments, aligner and bonding-guide design, and export for manufacture. FDA 510(k) cleared under K162850.

Chairside

GuideMia OrthoClic

The chairside planner. An automatic workflow to a treatment plan in minutes, with the design handed to a lab or to the GuideMia design service.

Planner — free

OrthoPlus Planner

Opens a case someone sends you, and reviews and adjusts the staging tooth by tooth. It cannot start a new case; creating, design and export are in OrthoPlus.

Automatic segmentation

Tooth segmentation is where an orthodontic case is either started or stalled. AlignerBot separates the crowns automatically, and where a CBCT is present it carries the roots and the alveolar bone along with them, so the staging moves whole teeth rather than crowns alone.

Automatic crown segmentation from the intraoral or model scan
Roots and alveolar bone from CBCT, fused into the same model as the crowns
Automatic staging, interproximal reduction and attachment placement
Model generation and trim paths, including models for directly printed aligners

About automatic CBCT segmentation

Cases it is built for

The standard orthodontic taxonomy. Every one of them runs through the same plan: segment, stage the movement, and output the appliance that delivers it.

Class I
A normal molar relationship with the problem somewhere else — crowding, rotations, a midline off. Most aligner cases start here.
Class II
The lower arch sits behind the upper. Distalisation, elastics, extraction or surgery, and the plan has to commit to which.
Class III
The lower arch sits ahead of the upper. Mild cases move with aligners; a skeletal one is a surgical plan, and the records should tell you which you have.
Deep bite
The upper incisors cover too much of the lower. Intrusion, proclination or posterior extrusion each leave a different finish.
Open bite
No contact where there should be. Staging is where an anterior open bite is won or lost.
Anterior crossbite
Upper incisors biting behind the lower instead of in front. Worth correcting early, before it wears the lower edges or drives a functional shift.
Posterior crossbite
Upper back teeth biting inside the lower, on one side or both. Expansion has to be planned in millimetres rather than hoped for.
Crowding
More tooth than arch. The plan is arithmetic first: how much space, and whether it comes from expansion, stripping or extraction.
Spacing
Gaps to close or to distribute. Closing them moves the incisors, which moves the profile.
Midline shift
The dental midline off the facial one. Easy to miss at the start and impossible to miss at the finish, so it is judged against the face rather than the arch.
Ectopic eruption
A tooth arriving outside the line of the arch. The space analysis comes first: the plan depends on whether there is room for it.
Impacted tooth
A tooth that has not erupted and will not on its own. Exposure, traction and the space to receive it all have to be in the plan before the first aligner.

Extraction cases, orthognathic cases and mixed dentition run through the same software. What changes is the staging and the anchorage, not the tool.

Around the software

Scanning protocols

What to capture and how to send it. The orthodontic protocol differs from the implant one: model or intraoral scans are what the case needs, a CBCT is optional, and a face scan is additional.

Read the protocols

Showing the case to someone else

Most orthodontic decisions are made with someone else in the room — a patient looking at where their teeth will end up, a referring dentist, a lab doing the design. Cympha Studio opens the same case in a browser, from a link.

Step through the staging online, with nothing installed
Show a patient the finish before the first aligner is made
Send a link to a referrer or a lab instead of a file

Open Cympha Studio

Cympha is a separate product from a partner company. Accounts, billing and support for it are handled by Cympha, not GuideMia.

Who uses GuideMia orthodontic software

Orthodontists and general dentists

Plan chairside in OrthoClic, show the patient the outcome, and either finish the design in OrthoPlus or send the plan out. Aligner-in-an-hour is a real workflow for first-stage cases.

Dental labs and aligner manufacturers

OrthoPlus runs the whole line: batch pre-processing, automatic staging, trim paths, laser marking and direct-print output with the gingival accuracy that decides whether a printed aligner seats. AlignerBot automates the design queue, so throughput grows without headcount.

Design services and solo technicians

One OrthoPlus seat plus a Cympha account is a complete design business. Clinics upload scans, you return fabrication-ready models, they print in-house.