Orthodontist: Do You Know Who They Are and What They Do?
We bring you the figure of the orthodontist so that you get to know better who this person is and what they do, with such an important job at our dental clinic.
Nowadays it’s common to visit our dental clinic at least once a year for a check-up of our oral health. Generally our dentist is the one who carries out the check-up, but there are more specialised dentists within the dental clinic. Today we’ll talk about: orthodontists.
The orthodontist is the dentist who has more specialised training in aligning the teeth and improving the anomaly of the maxillary and mandibular bones, that is, they’ll help us to improve the bite.
The difference between a dentist and an orthodontist
But why does an orthodontist do the check-up of the bite? What’s the difference between a dentist and an orthodontist? The orthodontist is a dentist who, after studying the degree, has specialised in the branch of Orthodontics within dentistry, being the most suitable person to make a proper diagnosis of our bite.
What is an orthodontist? And what is orthodontics?
An orthodontist is a dentist specialising in improving the alignment of the teeth and the anomalies of the maxillary bones. When we have the check-up of our oral health at our dental clinic, in addition to our dentist doing the dental check-up, our orthodontist will be the one who checks our occlusion and sees how we bite to see whether we need orthodontics.
Orthodontics, according to the Spanish Association of Orthodontics Specialists (AESOR), is the dental speciality that’s responsible for correcting the defective position of the teeth and the anomalies of the maxillary bones.
When do you need an orthodontist?
Whenever we need a check-up of our occlusion or our way of biting we’ll need an orthodontist to carry it out.
Nowadays there are many commercial brands that sell appliances online and even send them to our home without any medical supervision. We don’t recommend making these purchases/treatments as it can be counterproductive and even dangerous for our dental health. An example would be if: Our teeth can move outwards, since if we have them crowded they’ll come out forwards, which is why it’s necessary to carry out an orthodontic treatment supervised by an orthodontics specialist who’ll control how to create space and stop the teeth from moving outwards.
Who is the best orthodontist?
There are very many good orthodontists, but we’re sure that if you want to know who the best orthodontist is, you need to know what’s needed to be able to be considered that way. A good orthodontist should:
–Make a proper diagnosis of our malocclusion, requesting the necessary tests: orthopantomogram, lateral cephalogram, study models and photographs.
-Carry out an orthodontic treatment at our clinic with check-ups every month to see our appliance and control how our teeth are moving.
-Finally, our orthodontist should design the most suitable retention, fixed and/or removable.
Of course, for us the best orthodontist in Valencia is our dear Dr Tarazona, who studied the Degree in Dentistry and the Master’s in Specialisation in Orthodontics at the University of Valencia, as well as having specialised training in invisible orthodontics or aligners too.
From the Clínica Dental Doctores Tarazona we hope to have resolved your doubts about the figure of the orthodontist, but if you have any more doubts or want more information to find an “Orthodontist Near Me” don’t hesitate to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
