Orthodontics

The primary job of an orthodontist is to properly align the teeth and insure that the patient’s facial structure properly grows. An aspiring orthodontist needs about ten years of education. After finishing the education needed, it is possible to operate an orthodontic business with or without another orthodontist. Although it may sound like a lot of work, orthodontists have good pay and they have many advantages.

There is specific education required to become an orthodontist including: four years of college, dental school, orthodontic residency. In college, required courses are biology, chemistry, and physics. These courses, are needed to receive a bachelor’s degree for dental school.

Dental schools often look for new students with a high GPA, excellent recommendations, and a high score on the Dental Acceptance Test taken in junior year of college. The first to years of dental school is typically dedicated to class lectures and lab work. Class courses are anatomy, microbiology, biochemistry, physiology, clinical sciences, and laboratory techniques. With these courses, students learn local anesthesia, periodontology, or they learn the study of oral disease, health, and radiology. In the last two years of dental school, students take business courses. Not only does the last two years of dental school help improve business and social skills, but it is also the time when students begin to consider orthodontics.

If the student does consider becoming an orthodontist, the student will have to be in an orthodontic residency program. This program, which usually lasts two to three years, trains the student to become an orthodontist. As well as training, some orthodontic programs consist of seminars, lectures, and clinical practice. The a...

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...will be able to take their position. People will still need treatment in aligning their teeth and facial reconstruction. Orthodontic offices will be located in towns and cities for the convenience of traveling as well as to attract customers.

Since orthodontics is very independent upon technology there will eventually be many changes in this profession. As the world advances in technology, tools in orthodontics are most like to change. These advances may make this profession easier in a sense that it will make the treatment process faster. Along with new dental tools, there may also be new techniques in this practice. However, the cost to attend college, dental school, and orthodontic residencies may be much more expensive than it already it is today. With that, it might be more difficult to be accepted into these schools because they will most likely expect more.