From your friendly orthodontist

About this episode

Dr. Amanda Wilson discusses the importance of orthodontics beyond aesthetics and how to screen young patients.

Orthodontics do way more than just moving teeth for aesthetics! Learn from Dr. Amanda Wilson, orthodontist, dental consultant, and advisor at straighsmilesolutions how you can help screen for orthodontic cases. Patients are as young as two years old! Today we’ll talk about: What to screen for in a very young pediatric patientThe importance of orthodontics through real patient storiesThe relationship between orthodontics and periodonticsDIY alignersThank you for joining us today an...

People in this episode

Host: Claire Jeong, MS, RDH

Guest: Dr. Amanda Wilson

Topics covered

• orthodontics
• pediatric dentistry
• patient screening
• periodontics
• DIY aligners

Keywords

• orthodontics
• pediatric patients
• screening
• periodontics
• DIY aligners

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: straighsmilesolutions

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