This course is to prepare the postgraduate dental students to start their orthodontic clinical training on patients. It will teach them how to:
- comprehensively take History & examine an orthodontic patient
- Gather the necessary orthodontic records; manual & digital.
- Analyze orthodontic records including study model assessment and radiographic interpretation both manually & digitally.
- diagnose an orthodontic malocclusion by formulating an orthodontic problem list and a diagnostic summary
- Perform a digital diagnostic set-up/treatment simulation
- identify the treatment protocols in orthodontic management.
- formulate a treatment plan. & do a case presentation
- Know how to place separators, orthontic bands and brackets
- fabricate removable retainers, functional applances, soldered appliances and bend multilooped arch wires, T loops, bonded and Essix retainers.