Orthodontists perform dental services focusing on straightening the teeth, aligning the jaws, as well as fixing jaw and facial muscles into proper positioning. They treat dental problems like overbites, underbites, gaps in teeth, crowded teeth, crooked teeth, etc., using braces or maintainers.
As you can comprehend, this type of dental practice clearly requires skills and expertise. Thus, an orthodontist is only allowed to do those procedures when they have already completed 2 years of special training after graduating from dental school.
Yet, good character is necessary as well, especially if they are dealing with kids. So, what are the traits you should look for an orthodontist?
- Patient and thoughtful
One primary reason why an orthodontist should be patient is that children can become anxious and tend to move a lot. He/She should be understanding enough, why the kid is acting like that, then do some techniques on how to keep them at ease.
Another point is, the dental procedure can take long periods of time to finish in some cases such as adjustments of the appliance to fully align the teeth.
- Sensitive
Getting braces, retainers or maintainers can become worrisome for older children. Most of them think that it makes them look ugly and unpleasant. Also, they can be very conscious of what could be the possible result. An orthodontist should be cautious on how to deal with such concerns. He/She can inform the patient what is the procedure all about and comfort them that they can have a better and a prettier smile after not for long.
Another angle is the patient’s embarrassment to talk about dental problems with the orthodontist. Thus, an orthodontist should encourage patients to speak up freely.
- Detail-oriented and focused
Working with the teeth, an orthodontist should obviously have keen eyes to minute details such as the shape, color and spaces. They need to embody such character, so they can calculate how much pressure to apply during adjustments.
This is also the type of character which will enable an orthodontist to clearly explain all the information you need to know about a certain treatment. Thus, you will be guided properly and can keep track of what is going on and still going to happen.
- Appreciative of beauty
An orthodontist should already have a picture in mind of the possible result, they can give to their patients. During a consultation, you may say you want to correct your kid’s teeth for a beautiful smile.
An orthodontist’s deep appreciation of beauty and aesthetics enables him/her to see beyond your kid’s bright smile. This trait drives them to deliver a better result and see a healthy, clean, and perfectly aligned teeth beyond a pretty smile.
When you see signs of orthodontic problems in your kid such as protruding teeth, impacted teeth, bad bites, impacted teeth, crowding, or tooth much space between the teeth, visit an orthodontist as early as possible.
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