A message board for adults and older teens in dental braces or retainers, or who may undergo jaw surgery.
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What Is An Orthodontist?
An orthodontist is a specialist in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dental and facial irregularities. All orthodontists are dentists, but only about six percent of dentists are orthodontists. Admission to orthodontic post-graduate programs is extremely competitive and selective.
It takes many years to become an orthodontist and the educational requirements are demanding.
An orthodontist must complete college requirements before starting a three-to five-year graduate program at a dental school accredited by the American Dental Accociation (ADA). After dental school, at least two or three academic years of advanced specialty education in an ADA-accredited orthodontic program are required to be an orthodontist. The program includes advanced education in biomedical, behavioral and basic sciences. The orthodontic student learns the complex skills required to manage both tooth movement (orthodontics) and guide facial development (dentofacial orthopedics).
Only dentist who have successfully completed these advanced specialty education programs may call themselves orthodontists.
They have to know where to put your teeth though. How to get the tooth from point A to point B. They also have to know how to look good while standing there telling the assistants what to do and while driving the expensive cars we help them buy. 
I used to think that being a dentist would be fun when I was little but now that I am grown, I can see that being an Ortho is the way to go...now if I could only be good at all that science stuff. Really though, I love my ortho tons, I just think it is hilarious that he went to school for soooo long and he does not actually do hardly any physical work 
That is the beauty of education! 