Master of Dental Surgery in Orthodontics

This course will train residents in medical, odontological, and orthodontic examination procedures, orthodontic registration, clinical analysis of occlusion/malocclusion, and a functional examination of the stomatognathic system. Based upon the patient history, medical, and odontological orthodontic diagnosis, residents will develop problem lists and treatment models for each patient. This course is also designed to train residents in therapy presentation and discussions with patients and parents and the first treatment sequences.

Orthodontic Documentation, Diagnosis & Analysis is designed to orient the new resident to orthodontics as a specialty practice by reviewing and discussing the textbook “Contemporary Orthodontics" by Proffit (4th edition). Basic facial, morphological, and cephalometric methods used in clinical orthodontic practice will be reviewed, including principles of describing the face and facial proportions, analyzing the facial skeleton, intermaxillary relations, and tooth positions by model analysis and by standard cephalometric techniques. Emphasis is placed on various techniques and analyses used in analyzing patient records and the skills necessary to secure and prepare orthodontic records and to document comprehensively problems related to oral-facial health and malocclusion.

This course is designed to review the functional anatomy of the head and neck necessary for the complete understanding of orthodontic, orthopedic, and surgical applications on human biology. The course will especially focus on the functional morphology of the temporo-mandibular joints, masticatory system, and upper cervical region, as well as the topographic relations within the maxilla and mandible with regard to orthodontic tooth movement, sutures, and related structures of the facial skeleton. In addition, topographical relationships of hard and soft tissues in relation to orthognathic surgery will be covered.

This course will describe the basic concept of straight wire treatment, especially MBT systemized treatment, for developing proficient skills in planning the mechanic strategies from the diagnosis, treatment plan, aim, and commencing of treatment. The content includes the design of appliances, bracket prescriptions, the need and design of enforcement, etc. Also included is an overview of the biomechanics of removable functional appliance therapy.

This course will introduce the residents to the procurement and analysis of cephalometric radiographs, study casts, and patient photographs. In this course, the residents will hand and computer trace lateral cephalograms to produce cephalometric analysis using a variety of different methods and techniques. Study casts will be analyzed with different types of analysis such as arch length analysis and the Bolton tooth-size analysis. The concept of “excellent" patient photos is taught in this course.

This course prepares residents for clinical work by training them in bracket placement, arch bow ligatures, bend backs, tie-backs, and introduction to bending exercises. Banding and bracket placement will be taught by the use of study models, as well as the basic biomechanics of straight wire treatment before applications on patients.

This course will provide an opportunity for students to advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Participants will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field of interests and determine how research findings are useful in forming their understanding of their clinical work and patient care.

This course is a continuation of Orthodontic Patient Care 1 and represents full exposure to patient clinical orthodontic care. Residents are taught to procure the necessary patient records, to implement initial treatment plans and choices of treatment methods using either fixed or removable appliances.

This course offers a clinically relevant understanding of craniofacial growth and development. The course covers basic knowledge of prenatal development, craniofacial growth, the development of occlusion, and of skeletal and dental structures of particular importance for orthodontics. This course also provides a clinically relevant understanding of growth and development in relation to the practice of clinical orthodontics and how growth is used in the treatment of malocclusion.

This course will explore the relationship between tooth movement and orthopedic jaw movement and the nature of the associated physiological events. The physiology of mineralized tissues and the process of alveolar bone changes are also explored.

This course will provide residents with knowledge on current and classical orthodontic literature, the history, use, effect, and possible side effects of orthodontic treatment, both fixed and removable.

This course includes instruction on critically evaluating professional dental journal articles, predominantly of an experimental nature. The course will consist of monthly seminars on evaluations of current orthodontic literature. Residents will receive training in reviewing current and past literature and understanding its relevance to clinical orthodontics.

Residents will be introduced to and trained in wire bending, and wire bending techniques. Applied use of different arch bow materials and bending techniques and how the different materials react to bending and sliding.

Biostatistics course provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. This course represents an introduction to the field and provides a survey of data and data types. Specific topics include tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons; issues of power and sample size in study designs; and random sample and other study types. While there are some formulae and computational elements to the course, the emphasis is on interpretation and concepts. This course shall strengthen students' preparation in their research proposal in the second year of the program.

This course is a continuation of Orthodontic Patient Care 2 and represents full exposure to patient clinical orthodontic care. Residents are introduced to selected referrals with more complicated orthodontic problems, adult patients, and patients having periodontal conditions or other complicating factors.

This course is based on surgical orthodontic lectures and seminars discussing the diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment of dentofacial