The European Aligner Society recently held its sixth congress, on the island of Rhodes in Greece, and offered a programme that delivered insights and expertise from the leading minds in aligner orthodontics. One of these speakers was orthodontist Dr Morten G. Laursen, who is a senior clinical instructor in dentistry at Aarhus University in Denmark and runs a private orthodontic practice in Aarhus. During the congress, he presented a paper titled “The role of aligners in the treatment of gingival recession” that addressed the relevance of the dentoalveolar complex, his research focus, and he talks to Dental Tribune International in this interview about the importance of assessing the hard and soft tissue and planning treatment accordingly.