Academic activities in the program
Preclinical Orthodontic Course
This is a comprehensive course, given in the form of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions, which aims at exposing the first-year residents to various orthodontic diagnostic measures including clinical examination, impression taking, radiographic analysis and interpretation, model analysis, photographic analysis, diagnosis and treatment planning of different types of malocclusion, comprehensive wire bending, banding and bonding, typodont simulation of orthodontic treatment, fabrication of some of the common laboratory orthodontic appliances and the fabrication of orthodontic study models. Other modern aspects of orthodontics will also be covered during this course such as the manipulation of miniscrews.
Lectures
The following orthodontic topics are covered by senior staff members during the first-year residency of the program:
Craniofacial growth and development
Development of the dentition
Classification and etiology of malocclusion
Timing of orthodontic treatment
Treatment in the early and mixed dentition
Orthodontic treatment planning (multi-disciplinary approach)
Review of orthodontic brackets and fixed orthodontic appliances
Removable and Functional Appliances
Biology of tooth movement
Adverse effects of orthodontic treatment
Pre-surgical orthodontics
The use of Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs)
Book Review
Residents are required to present selected chapters from major orthodontic textbooks. The following books are recommended (Latest edition):
Proffit WR, Fields HW. Contemporary Orthodontics.
Graber TM, Vanarsdall RL, Vig KW. Orthodontics: Current Principle and Techniques.
Enlow DH, Hans MG. Essentials of Facial Growth.
Bishara SE. Textbook of Orthodontics.
McNamara JA, Brudon WL. Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Nanda RS, Tosun YS. Biomechanics in Orthodontics: Principles and Practice.
Jacobson A, Jacobson RL. Radiographic Cephalometry: From Basics to 3-D Imaging.
Profitt WR, White RP, Sarver DM. Contemporary Treatment of Dentofacial Deformities.
Duterloo HS, Planche P-G. Handbook of Cephalometric Superimposition.
Journal Club
In addition to the above materials, residents are required to assess and present selected articles from the most recent orthodontic literature. Recommended orthodontic journals are:
American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
European Journal of Orthodontics
Angle Orthodontist
Seminars in Orthodontics
Journal of Clinical Orthodontics
Advanced Orthodontic Seminars
Starting from the second through the fourth year of residency, a series of advanced orthodontic seminars are conducted on a weekly and cyclic basis. Each session represents a 3-hour-contact seminar supervised by a staff member where residents are required to present and discuss selected articles or book chapters on a major orthodontic topic. Topics and the recommended number of sessions assigned to each topic.
Monthly Case Presentation
Weekly case presentation sessions are allocated with all residents and instructors.
Research
Each resident is encouraged to conduct one research to be published in a peer reviewed journal. A research type could be either original research or systematic review.