When Digital Perfection Meets Clinical Reality Every dentist who has treated a few aligner cases knows the feeling: the digital plan looks perfect. On the screen, movements are beautifully coordinated, attachments are ideally shaped, and occlusion is balanced to the tenth of a millimeter.Then, somewhere between the software and the patient’s mouth, things change.What seemed predictable in the plan behaves differently in reality. Forces shift, teeth respond unevenly, and the t