Master of Science [M.S] [Orthodontics] From Seton Hill University

• Foundations of Orthodontics?

This course provides an introduction and overview of the curriculum for the 30-month orthodontic program. Residents gain foundational knowledge and information and a working knowledge of orthodontics in order to engage in patient treatment. An eclectic overview of various topics which are addressed in other curriculum areas such as applied clinical orthodontics, growth and development, occlusion/function/TMD, and practice management.?

• Pre-Clinical?

Provides the orthodontic residents the opportunity to perform some of the very same clinical procedures they will be performing on patients in a laboratory, simulated environment, including information and directions for patient record acquisition and retention.?

• Clinical 1?

Includes the actual treatment of patients as well as the preclinical training that provides the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to render orthodontic patient care. Residents make initial patient records which include: taking bite registrations, making impressions for e-models, taking facial and intra-oral photographs, taking panoramic and cephalometric radiographs. They also perform orthodontic diagnoses and treatment plans, place separators, perform bondings/bandings, and at times place various orthopedic appliances.?