Books on orthodontic proceedures for the patient.

[loulou123]

Was wondering if anyone can help me find a book on Orthodontics thats aimed at adults? im a bit of a book lover and itd be great for me to have a book explaining wot was going on etc.

Have looked on amazon etc and they do a lot but they are meant for the student orthodontists and i was hoping for something abit simpler to understand.

Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

[Dr Jon Harrow]

Hi Loulou
saw your posting about books on orthodontics, i think to the best of my knowledge they all tend to be aimed towards students, how about asking your orthodontist the questions you need answers to, i personally found mine a little slack on the knowledge/information front, but then i think that is a trait of UK practitioners (i suppose i can say that), my work colleagues hate 'know it all' patients for instant..im in the minority in that i actually love having patients who want to become partners in their treatment...alas for you my area is psychiatry, not orthodontics, but keep on with plugging away..its your body, remember that.
if i find out any more info i will keep you posted...i actually was given some leaflets...complete rubbish, and so old and out of date it was unbelievable..but then that is the NHS, out dated and outmoded in many senses and i think our private practitioners in the UK are still party to that
I'm sure someone on this forum could help with any questions as well, i found out about power springs very quickly by posting a question, and I had previously spent hours on Google with no joy.
Good luck!!
Jon XX

[bbsadmin]

Just wondering...what sort of information would you want such a book to contain? How technical would you want it to get?

[loulou123]

Urmm well id like it so that it explains exactly whats going on, im going to have double surgery as well as the braces.

Not too technical but i do have an alevel in human biology so could handle some techinal speak.

I dont mind if its very detailed as long as i can actually understand it, as the few i have found have been very advanced for those training to become orthodontists or facial surgons, and the ordinary person has no chance of understanding 99% of them!

[Lisa65]

Well this one can't be too technical. It's aimed at dentists with an "interest" in orthodontics. Amazon lets you peek at a couple of pages and it didn't look incomprehensible. I'd have thought an intelligent layperson would understand most of it, perhaps with some help from the internet. It's not cheap though.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/01926318 ... 90-0695852

[Graceful58]

I was just thinking how nice it would be if the series of "...for Dummies" books were to create one titled Othodontics for Dummies. That would be a great idea I think.

For all of us who have so many questions.