![]() ![]() The next most- pretty close behind- are class II’s (which is excess overjet), and then relatively small percentage of Class III’s. By far, I think the most cases I treat are Class I and they have crowding or spacing. We define or classify cases that come in into Class I which is typically a straight profile, Class II which is excess overjet (the maxilla is ahead of the mandible) and Class III which is a prognathic mandible or small maxilla. Almost everyone that comes in has some dental crowding or spacing. Interviewer: What is one condition/ disease/ issue you treat most frequently? It’s kind of opened up orthodontics to more people. I think as long as you’re selecting cases appropriately, it’s a terrific way to treat adults and some teenagers discretely. And some people push the envelope as far as what they think it can do. It turns out they’ve been capable of doing lots of things we didn’t think they’d be able to do. Nobody really thought could do much more than simple anterior alignments for spacing. Brackets and wires as well-there’s been a revolution in the design of the brackets-self-ligating brackets (both passive and active systems).īut Invisalign, which came out maybe just two years before I finished my residency, has really revolutionized Orthodontics. Interviewee: The biggest one is probably Invisalign. Interviewer: How has the specialty changed throughout your career? So I happened to get very lucky that I stayed at The University of Pennsylvania where I knew a lot of the attending doctors, professors, staff and students. You rank your order of preference and they rank people they interview and a computer puts you together. So you can choose where you apply and I applied to probably ten different orthodontic residency programs I got interviews at three of them. As you will find out, you really don’t get to choose where you do your residency- there is what we call a “match program”. Interviewee: I went to The University of Pennsylvania for dental school and also for my residency. Interviewer: How and why did you choose the school you attended? The way I see consultations is I block out specific mornings or specific afternoons where I see new patient consultations or new patient exams back to back to back and that’s really all I’ll do on one of those days so I’m not really interrupted very much. I usually take an hour break for lunch which involves running downstairs grabbing a cup of soup, running back, replying to a bunch of emails, going over diagnoses with treatment planners and then its ready to start my afternoon (which is more of the same). It’s typically quite hectic I end up seeing between 40-50 patients a day so there’s not a whole lot of down time. My day involves very little sitting in this chair and a lot of running around between chairs. After I see each patient at each chair I dictate to my technicians something to do, then they’ll do it and I’ll come back and check everything. I have 4 or 5 people in the chairs at one time and I’m doing different things at each chair. So my assistants will direct me to where I’m needed. In the first chair I have new patients getting braces, the second chair I’ll have all impressions, the third chair I’ll have wire changes, the fourth chair I’ll have retainer checks, insertions and Invisalign checks and the fifth chair is kind of like an overflow. I create my schedule- I do what’s called a “block schedule” for my patients so I work out of five chairs at a time. ![]() Interviewee: A typical workday involves a little bit of everything for me. Interviewer: Describe a typical work day as an orthodontist. It just seemed to fit my personality ideally. It’s a relatively clean profession- not a lot of blood. ![]() And, the lifestyle is nice! Not a lot of emergencies. Every patient is different and I liked the fact that it was kind of like solving a puzzle for each individual patient. It’s a very cerebral profession that involves a lot of problem solving, creating the correct diagnosis and outlining a treatment plan. In dental school, I spent a lot of time with different professors and attending doctors outside of the classroom and I found the profession of orthodontics to be the most interesting. I’ve never had orthodontic treatment myself. I knew my whole life, oddly enough I wanted to be a dentist, probably since I was 5 or 6 years old but I didn’t know much about Orthodontics until Dental school. Interviewee: I think I decided I wanted to be an orthodontist in my third year of dental school. Interviewer: When did you fi rst decide to become an orthodontist and why? Happy to be helping out the Howard University Dental Students today. My name is Andrew Schwartz, I’m an Orthodontist here in Washington DC and I have an office in Rockville, Maryland as well. Andrew SchwartzĪffiliation with interviewee: Personal Orthodontist Interview Setting: Capitol Orthodontics- Office of Dr.
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