Visual Treatment Objectives in Orthodontics: A Blueprint for treatment planning

A Visual Treatment Objective (VTO) is like a blueprint or a visual plan to forecast the normal growth of the patient and the anticipated influences of treatment, to establish the individual objectives we want to achieve for that patient. Treatment for a growing patient must be planned. Treatment for a patient who is growing must be scheduled according to growth changes rather than the patient's initial skeletal structure. Developing pretreatment growth profiles of our patients helps to overcome our inadequacies in growth forecasting.