Dentists must keep up-to-date with advances in the field of Dentofacial Orthopedics to provide more precise treatments to their patients"

Dentofacial Orthopedics aims to correct the width, length, or height of the jaws; to stimulate or inhibit jaw growth when it is altered; or to improve dental eruption. But there are other abnormalities that can be prevented or cured thanks to this specialty, such as the reduction or elimination of dental crowding; the correction of habits such as thumb sucking or abnormal swallowing, or asymmetry problems, as well as preserving spaces for permanent teeth that have not yet erupted.  

This professional master’s degree in Dentofacial Orthopedics will allow the student to review the fundamental knowledge of craniofacial growth and to understand the best way to guide abnormal growth in order to correct dental and facial malpositions.

This training is distinguished by its order and distribution of theoretical material, guided practical examples in all its modules, and motivational and explanatory videos. This enables direct clinical management, guiding both the professional and the entire team towards the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients.

In this way, the student will learn about the most used and effective functional appliances, from expanders, disjunctors, and appliances, to the latest innovations in treatment with clear aligners.

In short, the objective is that the student, after completing this professional master’s degree, will be able to completely diagnose patients' growth disorders and carry out effective treatment adapted to the patient's needs. 

Broaden your knowledge by taking this professional master’s degree in Dentofacial Orthopedics"

This professional master’s degree in Dentofacial Orthopedics contains the most complete and updated scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include:

• Developing practical cases presented by experts inDentofacial Orthopedics
• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• The latest developments in Dentofacial Orthopedics
• Practical exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Dentofacial Orthopedics
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This professional master’s degree may be the best investment you can make when choosing a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Dentofacial Orthopedics, you will obtain a Master's from TECH Technological University"

The teaching staff includes a team of Orthodontic and Dentofacial Orthopedics specialists, who bring their experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists from leading scientific societies.

The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive training program to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the orthodontist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the dentist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of Dentofacial Orthopedics with extensive teaching experience.

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This 100% online professional master’s degree will allow you to combine your studies with your professional work while increasing your knowledge in this field"

The professional master’s degree in Dentofacial Orthopedics is aimed at facilitating the dental health professional's performance with the latest advances and most innovative treatments in the sector.   

This training will enable you to specialize in Dentofacial Orthopedics"

General Objectives

• Learn the basic principles of dentomaxillary orthopedics
• Master the growth process to know how to try to guide it during orthopedic treatment

• Be able to master the dental eruption process, as well as any possible anomalies
• Recognize all the structures present in the tests to make a complete and accurate diagnosis, which is essential when choosing the ideal treatment
• Learn how to perform the most commonly used cephalometry tests, which will provide important data on growth and will allow you to choose one treatment or another
• Be able to identify vertical problems present in the patient, and explain their most common manifestations
• Learn to identify the manifestations of transversal problems in growth and their causes

• Learn about all anteroposterior malocclusions and their complexities in order to choose the best possible treatment in each case
• Learn the rules that must be followed in order to obtain harmonious growth, as well as the devices that exist to achieve it
• Discover the impact that habits have on craniofacial development and the appliances we can use to correct these habits and allow the patient to develop correctly
• Be able to identify asymmetries and define their etiology

Specific Objectives 

• Learn the basic concepts of Orthopedics
• Know the differences between Orthodontics and Orthopedics
• Study the different types of forces present
• Identify the classification and etiology of malocclusions
• Discover the differences between interceptive and corrective treatment
• Learn the importance of performing treatments in two phases
• Recognize the limits of treatment in Orthopedics and the possibility of resorting to Orthognathic Surgery
• Learn the fundamental concepts of craniofacial growth
• Recognize the different phases that occur during growth
• Understand the different accepted theories regarding skeletal growth
• Know and identify cleft lip and palate
• Learn the importance of performing orthopedic treatments when the patient is at the peak of growth
• Learn the chronology and times of eruption
• Recognize the possible abnormalities of tooth formation that can be found in patients
• Understand the anomalies in eruption and how to identify them in patients
• Be able to perform bone-tooth discrepancy and Bolton discrepancy analysis
• Know how to identify all the structures present in the orthopantomographies, as well as any abnormalities that may exist
• Be able to identify and analyze teleradiographs, and extract as much information as possible from them
• Learn how to take quality intraoral and extraoral photographs for case studies and monitoring
• Identify the latest 3D diagnostic images and the useful information obtained from them
• Learn the basic concepts on which the cephalometric study is based
• Identify the patients' current growth stage based on Hassel’s stages
• Perform the most commonly used cephalometric analyses, such as those developed by Steiner, Ricketts, McNamara, and Jarabak, and learn how to interpret the results
• Recognize the use of overlays as a useful element to assess treatment progress
• Identify frontal cephalometry, its structures, and the useful information it provides
• Learn about wrist radiography for studying skeletal growth
• Be able to identify a comprehensive diagnostic picture of the patient's problems for detailed study
• Delve into the vertical problem of craniofacial growth
• Recognize the clinical manifestations of vertical problems, such as open bite and deep bite
• Describe the different vertical growth patterns, which will be very useful when choosing potential treatments
• Recognize the prevalence and etiology of vertical growth disorders
• Learn how to diagnose these vertical problems, by using various diagnostic tests
• Understand how the occlusal plane is managed with the various appliances to try to improve patients' vertical growth
• Learn about transverse syndrome and its manifestations
• Identify the close relationship between transverse bone problems and the upper airway
• Recognize the manifestations of a possible dentoalveolar compensation, masking a skeletal origin
• Identify possible treatments for these transverse problems, such as maxillary disjunction or dentoalveolar expansion 
• Learn about the different appliances available to treat these malocclusions
• Recognize the relationship of these transversal problems to skeletal Class IIIs
• Know the latest forms of cross-sectional diagnostics and how to interpret them
• Learn about anteroposterior syndrome and its possible manifestations
• Learn about the relationship between anteroposterior problems and the lower airways
• Recognize the prevalence and etiology of these malocclusions, and learn to distinguish between a bone problem and a dental problem
• Delve into normal occlusion or Class I to know which is the ideal occlusion
• Identify Class II malocclusion and its particularities
• Carefully analyze the treatment forms and appliances for skeletal and dental Class II
• Learn the latest methods of mandibular advancement with clear aligners with the Invisalign System
• Know the Class III malocclusion, both osseous and dental
• Obtain the necessary knowledge to know how to manage these malocclusions, as well as the most effective appliances to treat them
• Learn the use of appliances, such as the chin and face mask, which are very useful in these patients with skeletal Class III
• Apply skeletal Class III treatment with Bollard mini-plates outlined by Le Clerk, which, despite being more invasive, obtains a highly significant result
• Review patient habits that influence these anteroposterior malocclusions
• Learn the functional rehabilitation method described by Dr. Pedro Planas
• Recognize the classification of functional lesions present in patients
• Learn the fundamental laws of occlusion for normal craniofacial development
• Identify the most effective treatments, from simple occlusal grinding to placing tracks
• Know how to use functional devices in order to restore the patient's normal function
• Recognize the importance of habits and the intimate relationship with the correct craniofacial development
• Understand mouth breathing, its possible causes and treatment
• Learn about muscular hypotonia syndrome and the most effective devices used to treat it
• Learn to identify dysfunctional swallowing, how it affects the rest of the stomatognathic apparatus and its possible treatment
• Identify the most common habits, such as lingual and labial interposition, their relationship with other malocclusions, and the importance of their treatment
• Recognize thumb sucking habits in patients and how to prevent them from persisting over time
• Know the most useful devices for treating habits
• Recognize the importance of working together with a speech therapist to allow for normal craniofacial development over time
• Identify the asymmetries present in patients and their particularities
• Classify the asymmetries that can be found in order to improve the efficiency of treatments
• Recognize the etiology and prevalence of asymmetries in order to identify them more effectively
• Learn the protocols for asymmetries according to their origin and current growth stage
• Recognize the different existing devices available to treat asymmetries

A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"