Continuing Dental Education
| Recognizing the Need for Early Treatment in Orthodontics |
| Date: | Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
| Time: | Registration: 8:30 a.m. Lecture: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Tuition | $175 DDS / $125 AUX |
| Location: | Loma Linda University School of Dentistry |
| Credit: | 7 hours of CDE credit |
| AGD Code: | 371 |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| Powerful market forces, including referring dentist perspectives on conventional orthodontic treatments and orthodontists’ entrepreneurial development of appliances, shape the orthodontic practice. Treatment is often based on patient preferences and referring dentist philosophies. Both are these treatments effective and stable? Do they cause esthetic and functional disorders? Is there any scientific basis for the popular Class II treatment plans? Evidence-based dentistry is the standard, and orthodontists are expected to make rational, data-driven decisions as they treat patients. This lecture will provide a critical examination of the commonly cited benefits of the routine two-stage Class II treatment. The expansion, functional, or fixed early treatment without extraction will be discussed in light of evidence from refereed literature. With the eruption of the primary incisors during the first year of life, the anterior crossbite may be one of the first types of malocclusion to present itself. But do these anterior crossbites persist long term? May some self-correct as further teeth erupt and the growth of the jaws matures? At what point is treatment indicated and what type of treatment is most successful? This lecture will discuss the diagnosis of anterior crossbites with attention to the underlying structural etiology. Is it dental or skeletal, maxillary or mandibular? Is there a genetic component? What treatment modalities are available and is there an optimal time to treat? Does treatment provide a lasting effect? What are the long-term outcomes of current treatment modalities? This lecture will attempt to address these questions by reviewing current scientific evidence. Treatment strategies will be demonstrated with case studies. |
For more information email continuinged@llu.edu or call (909) 558-4685.