COURSE OVERVIEW

Our Interceptive Orthodontics course will teach you orthodontic concepts and options to best help your young patients. After this course, you can confidently return to your practice knowing which mixed-dentition cases you can treat now and which cases you should defer treatment to the early permanent dentition. With this knowledge, you can position yourself as a valuable resource to families. When you hear the question “does my child need braces?” you can intelligently respond with the best treatment options for that patient. There are many simple solutions to common malocclusion problems you see in children. You can help create more space for the permanent teeth, or correct bite issues that can become problematic once they become teens. We will teach you how by going into early orthodontic treatment, we can prevent a dental bite issue from becoming a skeletal issue, which may require orthognatic surgery.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Taking your skills and treatment to a New level.
• Determining Factors: Extraction vs. Non-extraction treatments.
• Disarticulation: When and Where to place Turbos in early mixed dentition 2 x 4 treatment.
• Proven Approaches to varied Class II and Class III cases the protocol.

COURSE OUTLINE

• How to answer the dreaded question “Does my kid need braces?”
• How to set up your patients early for better results.
• Mixed dentition, looking beyond cavities.
• Make the best of your pedo examination.
• Identify which cases require earlier intervention.
• Understand growth to improve results and minimize difficulties.
• When should you or your orthodontist start the evaluation and treatment.
• Space-maintainers which, when and why.
• Simple appliances (buttons, LLA, TPA, RPE, cleats etc).
• How to identify and treat early issues.
• What you can do with little risk (while being profitable).
• How to refer to and communicate with the orthodontist.

COURSE HIGHLIGHT

• Expand scope of patients treatable by GP by starting with Early Mixed Dentition Treatment.
• RPE Orthopedic Expansion of Arch widths to create skeletal changes.
• How to utilize simple orthopedic appliances to grow typoplastic Maxilla and Hypoplastic mandibles.
• Systematic approach to 2 x 4 appliances.
• Myofunctional Orthopedic
• Customized Invisalign MAF / Bionator and Twin block
• Non customized - Myobrace / pre-orthodontics
• Carriere Distallizer / Herbst Appliance.
• Workshop Mixed dentition typodonts to take home.
• How to take construction bite for successful functional lab appliance construction.
• Colour manual.
• Hands-on: Gold chain bonding for buried caries and extrusion mechanics.
• Take home videos on instructors hands-on demonstration.