About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of individualized consent in orthodontics and the legal aspects surrounding it.

How good is your consent for orthodontics — really? More adults are having ortho, and more GDPs are providing it. So which risks should you be discussing with every single patient — and which ones depend on the person in the chair? When a case is heading for a big overjet or a tricky rotation, is that a conversation you have at the start, or one you scramble to explain halfway through? And what actually makes a consent form legally valid — the signature, or everything around it? This episode brings together two perspectives you don’t often hear in the same room. Dr Zaid Esmail is a specialist orthodontist and founder of the Online Orthodontic Academy, who mentors GDPs through fixed and aligner cases. Dr Neel Jaiswal  returns for the dento-legal view — he’s a dentist and the founder of Professional Dental Indemnity (PDI). Together with Jaz, they get very specific about what individualised consent looks like in practice, and how to build a process your patients remember and a court respects. https://youtu.be/YvsiIiX1Q1w Watch PDP273 on YouTube Protrusive Dental Pearl: Make Your Patient Feel Unique It might be your 100th, 500th or 1,000th case — but for the patient in the…

People in this episode

Host: Jaz Gulati

Guests: Dr Zaid Esmail, Dr Neel Jaiswal

Topics covered

• orthodontics
• informed consent
• patient communication
• dento-legal issues
• individualized care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Online Orthodontic Academy, Professional Dental Indemnity

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