Achieving The Highest Standard

  Board Certification!

• Founded in 1929 as the first specialty board in Dentistry and the only certifying board recognized by the American Dental Association for the specialty of Orthodontics. Certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics signifies a unique achievement, a large step beyond the two to three years of advanced education required for a dentist to become a specialist in orthodontics.
• The process requires the candidate to demonstrate actual accomplishments in patient care with detailed case reports on the treatment provided for a broad range of patient problems.
• Preparation for this phase usually requires at least five years just to complete the treatment and follow-up on the different types of conditions required by the Board. Each detailed case report must be completely documented with x-ray films, photographs, and plaster casts made before and after treatment.
• Those records are studied by directors of the American Board of Orthodontics who then complete the examination process with a penetrating oral examination based on those reports and other aspects of patient care.
• The significance of board certification goes far beyond achieving the approval of that panel of experts. The greatest benefits come from the in-depth self-evaluation that goes into the years of preparation for board certification.
• This voluntary effort in continuing education is unique in the way that it applies earlier classroom work and conventional continuing education to the real world of patients care, culminating in presentation of the results
  for critical review by a panel of nationally respected peers.