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10 Sep 2011 - Sunshine Coast


HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ROLE IN TREATING GROWING CHILDREN

10 September 2011
NOVOTEL Twin Waters Resort
Sunshine Coast - Queensland

5 CPD Hours (Cientific)

Sponsored by

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GUEST SPEAKERS

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Dr Derek Mahony is a Specialist Orthodontist who has spoken to thousands of practitioners about the benefits of interceptive orthodontic treatment. Early in his career Dr Mahony learned from leading clinicians the dramatic effect proper nasal respiration can affect patients in orthodontic treatment. He has promoted early ENT consultations, and normalized tongue posture, ever since. His lectures are based on the positive impact such a combined treatment approach has had on his orthodontic results and the benefits this philosophy provides from a practice management viewpoint.
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Dr David McIntosh is an Ear Nose Throat Specialist that specialises in paediatrics as well as nasal and sinus disease. He is the only post-fellowship trained Paediatric ENT working north of Brisbane. David has several practice locations in Queensland, to make it easier for patients to access ENT services. Patients also come to see him from interstate, seeking a balanced and informed opinion. David has been accepting referrals from dentists and orthodontists for many years and has fostered an interest in Paediatric upper airway obstruction.

SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Topics to be covered
  • Factors that affect the way the dentition develops. The role of normal function will be emphasized.
  • Adenoids, Tonsils, Allergies and their implication on Facial Growth and Development.
  • The essentials of Facial Growth relevant to clinical orthodontics are presented and the biological factors underlying different craniofacial growth patterns are explained. Special attention is given to the role of functional components in skeletal development.
  • Methods of influencing facial growth to reach treatment objectives.
  • Interceptive procedures leading to spontaneous corrections and favourable conditions to initiate orthodontic treatment.
Seminar outline
  • Interceptive orthodontics
  • Early treatment philosophy
  • Age 3-7 diagnosis and treatment
  • Oral habits: thumb, tongue, pacifier
  • Class III malocclusions - Interceptive therapies
  • Planas Tracks Technique
  • Anterior/Posterior cross bites
  • Allergies, Adenoids and Airways
  • Eruption Problems
  • 2x4 Straight wire appliance in mixed dentition
  • Harmonizing width of the dental arches
Benefits
At the completion of this course students will be able to :
  • Identify, evaluate, control & neutralize the worsening factors in a developing malocclusion.
  • Develop arches in the mixed dentition so that extraction of permanent teeth can be minimized.
  • Recognize deviations from normal growth patterns.
  • Review the facial growth patterns and make rational choices regarding diagnostic and therapeutic treatment procedures.
  • Determine when and how the interference should be removed.
  • Minimize skeletal, dentoalveolar and muscular problems by the end of the transition to the permanent dentition.