IAADent Orthodontic course
Just finished the course 3 of 8 of the IAADent comprehensive orthodontics and orthopedics course. I've been quite busy lately and haven't really had much free time to jot things down in this blog. I'll put own a few thoughts about the course here. The first two sessions was a lot of revision for me having attended the first couple of EODO ortho sessions about diagnostics. The philosophy taught by IAADent and Derek Mahony run pretty parallel with a focus on a triad of airway, TMD and sleep and considering facial aesthetics. From what I gathered at EODO, Kenneth Lee has more of a focus on TMD and incorporating this into diagnosis and management prior to commencing any orthopedic or orthodontic changes. I could be wrong but although TMD isn't absent in EODO, it isn't as deeply ingrained into the philosophy they teach which is more heavily airway and sleep focussed. However, knowing a bit more about the subject now, I guess you can't really separate the three from ...