Clinical HandsonCourse

This course is a 5 day clinical handson training program where you will learn the Straight Wire MBT technique in Labial orthodontics and get to do full mouth bonding on a patient. The astute participants gets a specially designed course whereby they are directly given Level II certification. AFO provides you with the most complete handson orthodontics training courses!

This 5 days course is intended for dentists who have little or no experience in orthodontics and want to learn to incorporate it into their practices or progress from removable appliances to a comprehensive, fixed technique. This is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on course which will help you to increase your practice base. This course also comes with a free 5 year post-course mentoring.

Certificates and Accreditation

What you get from the Course

1. Course Manual

2. DVD with Lecture and Practice Videos

3. 5 years free post course mentoring and 10mts discussion time for all your cases

4. Access to clinical photographs, patient searchable databes and Course videos online

5. Level II certification AFO

Straight Wire Orthodontics Made Easy (LEVEL II CLINICAL)

AFO proudly presents the Level II (Clinical) handson certificate course in the MBT system of the Preaadjusted Edgewise Appliance (Straight Wire) in Labial Orthodontics

Course Fee: 70,000 INR / 1400 USD

Date: Day 1 to Day 3

Time: 10.00 AM TO 5.00 PM each day

Topics

Introduction to AFO Course Philosophy

2. Growth and Development

3. Biomechanics

4. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

a. Extra oral examination / Habits

b. Intra oral examination

c. Photography in Orthodontics and Model Analysis

d. Cephalometrics & Ceph Tracing

5. Space gaining

6. Straight Wire Appliance

7. MBT System

8. Armamentarium

9. Banding and Bonding

10.Anchorage Control

11.Mechanotherapy

12.Retention and Relapse

13.Hands-on Typodont - Full mouth Banding, Bonding, Wire placement and Wire removal

14.Interceptive Orthodontics

15. Functional Orthodontics with special emphasis on Twin Block

Date: Day 3 and Day 4

Participant will get one patient each for full mouth bonding.

Case Review & Post-Course Mentoring No extra charges will be levied for the post-course mentoring of all new and in-progress cases for a period of 5 years. This post course mentoring is the unique highlight of the course as this will allow the participant to discuss their cases as the treatment progresses. Each participant also gets 10mts of online discussion time per case if needed. After registration to the course, the participants can select patients in their clinic and bring the cast and photographs with them for the course so that they can start on the patients when they get back to their clinics (please contact us for the details).

AFO Clinical Training Center (CTC)

Contact Course Coordinator (CTC)

Dr. Rajat Sachdeva

Dr.Sachdeva's Dental Institute

101 Ashok Vihar Phase I

New Delhi - 110052

Ph: 0091 9818894041

Call Between 9.30 AM to 1.30 PM and 5.30 PM to 8.30PM IST

Dental Implant Course

Please contact Dr Rajat for the 2 day Dental Implant course that will be conducted after AFO course at the same center on July 31st and August 1st, 3013

Academy of Fixed Orthodontics

The most comprehensive orthodontic education in the World!

Dr.Ravi Kumar

has been practicing and teaching orthodontics for the last 12 years.

He is a keen researcher and has received Govt. Of India patent for his invention in dentistry.

He has been in the teaching profession since the last 8 years and is the founder president of Indian Society Of Orthodontics For General Practitioners (ISOGP), the only organization in India representing general practitioners with orthodontic practice.

He is also conducting short term and long term (including online) Certificate Course in Fixed Orthodontics for the general dentist based on the Realistic Treatment Philosophy (RTP) developed by him. This treatment method includes Straight Wire, Begg's, Self-Ligating Bracket and Tip-Edge techniques to deliver shortened treatment time as opposed to traditional orthodontic treatments.He is also practicing and teaching Lingual (Invisible) orthodontics. Dr.Ravi Kumar is also involved in developing a frictionless Ligation system for orthodontic brackets (Patent Pending). He has also developed the "Ravi Gauge" for accurate bracket positioning.