Orthodontics 660

Course Objectives

The Orthodontics 660 course is designed to provide the 6th year student with both clinical instruction and experience in orthodontics. Diagnostic skills developed will enable the student to evaluate the severity of malocclusions and the degree of treatment difficulty before starting the treatment, and clinical experience earned will make possible for a student to carry out orthodontic treatment a general practitioner could handle.

Practical training in diagnoses

Since making a diagnosis is not only an intellectual work process which requires advanced professional knowledge, but also an oral health expert's daily work, the Department provides the student with training where s/he has a postulated (virtual) experience of making a diagnostic judgment and inference process with the use of a computer-based intelligence system that has the student clearly understand the "diagnostic process by an oral health expert." The Department also uses a new group study method with wireless projectors, aiming for effective training results

-Purposes of practical training in diagnoses
Understanding a problem-oriented treatment planning process, the details of which are as follows:
1. Understanding the method of database collection of appropriate information relating to patients' orthodontic problems
2. Based on the database, understanding sampling methods of the lists of problems which the patient currently has
3. Mastering the methods of diagnosis and treatment planning by making use of a computer

The first case: Case of anterior crossbite on a growth phase
Period: January to February
The second case: Case of openbite on a growth phase
Period: March to April
The third case: Case of an adult's mandibular prognathism
Period: May to June

[Clinic for Patient Care]

The student is requested to participate in a seminar for diagnosing and treatment planning of a new patient with malocclusion.
All new patients must have a Case Presentation prior to starting the active treatment. The bay instructors should sign a final treatment plan accepted by the Faculty after the Case Presentation has been completed. It is the policy of the department to see the patient at least every four weeks. If the patient is not seen this frequently, the bay instructor must be informed of the reasons.
If there is a problem with patient cooperation in keeping appointments and/or using the orthodontic appliances, the student should contact his/ her instructors first and soon.

Recommendations

Required : None
Suggested : Contemporary Orthodontics, WR Proffit, Mosby, 1st Ed., 1986.
Japanese Translation by K Takada, Quintessence Japan, 1989.
References : A textbook of orthodontics（W.J.B. Houston, C.D. Stephens, W.J.Tulley, Wright, 2nd ed., 1994）
Orthodontic Knowledge Hyper-Link(CD-ROM software), C.D. Stephens, K. Takada,Y. Kakiuchi, Medigit, Osaka, 1997.