Faculty Bibliography

Optimizing the consultation appointments with prospective patients or parents of young patients remain an important challenge in the overall management of orthodontic treatment. Without doubt, the orthodontic practitioner requires a profound understanding of the dentofacial characteristics of each patient who presents for an orthodontic evaluation for the need, timing, and extent of orthodontic treatment. In addition to understanding the various components of a specific malocclusion, the orthodontist needs to continue to hone his/her communication skills to ethically and successfully inform patients and parents of young patients as to the benefits, risks, cost benefit ratios, ideal and alternative treatment strategies associated with any contemplated orthodontic treatment. Intelligently analyzing the specific components of many malocclusions require a thorough and detailed study of the patient himself/herself as well as a meaningful scrutiny of orthodontic pre-treatment records. It is the author's opinion that a more traditional approach to orthodontic consultations offer significant advantages over single visit consultations intended to expedite the entire consultation process with the obvious intent of immediately starting orthodontic treatment at the expense of more completely understanding the various underlying components of the malocclusion at hand and transmitting this information to patients and parents of young patients in a more cogent and thoughtful manner. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The author focuses on the perception of private dental practitioners on their success while mentioning the role of modern dental education in providing knowledge in dentistry. Topics discussed include dental practitioner interpreting their success with the patient satisfaction and with the quality of their treated outcomes, role of dental education in introducing thinking skills to students, and evidence-based dentistry preparing dental students for current and future protocols

This article opens with a recognition that ectopic maxillary canines may lead to frank impactions requiring a coordinated and multidisciplinary approach to their surgical/orthodontic management and the potential benefit of managing canine ectopia, particularly palatally displaced canines, more conservatively in their pre-eruptive ectopic positions in an effort to avoid impaction. The prevalence of palatally displaced canines (PDC) in various populations and corroborating as well as competing or conflicting opinions of etiology are briefly reviewed. Some of the traditional as well as relatively newer strategies and associated investigations of managing pre-eruptive palatally displaced maxillary canines are discussed, and the imaging techniques utilized to identify and locate ectopic maxillary canines are also discussed. Early detection of ectopic canines must include at the very least panoramic and/or periapical radiographs as part of any mixed dentition orthodontic examination and assessment. The sometimes unpredictable continued path of the ectopic maxillary canine poses clinical and ethical issues to the clinician when developing treatment strategies as part of any overall orthodontic treatment plan for young patients presenting with maxillary canine ectopia. The need for more thoughtful and carefully designed randomized clinical trials with a greater emphasis on subject sample scrutiny is strongly recommended to add much needed clarity to the clinical management of ectopic maxillary canines