A successful orthodontist must understand the patient's expectations and meet his/her needs while respecting roles, ethics and deontology. When a patient comes to an orthodontic office, the practitioner makes a diagnosis, draws up a problem list and develops the ideal treatment plan and possibly compromises on treatment plans that he/she exposes to the patient trying to understand the patient's requests and needs to agree on the optimal therapy for that particular patient; often the chosen treatment plan is one of compromise. Compromised treatment plans will be presented and it will be explained how they came to be formulated in agreement with the patient, the techniques implemented will then be presented underlining how these must be chosen to obtain the maximum benefit of the patient, simplifying appliances and biomechanics, reducing chair and treatment time, increasing the acceptance rate and decreasing litigation in the practice.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, attendees will be able to:
Define and present the appropriate treatment plan for a given patient by increasing the acceptance rate and decreasing litigation in the practice.
Propose simplified appliances and biomechanics reducing chair and treatment time.
Recognize how to reduce the use of TADs by increasing anchorage by traditional appliances and simplified biomechanics.
