POS 491 – ORTHODONTIC DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING

The course is given over a period of 17 weeks in the form of a two-hours seminar. In the first 2 weeks,
lectures will be given to revise the most important topics the students will need throughout the course.
The following weeks, the class will be divided into groups of students that will be participating in a teambased/case-based tutorial sessions to discuss the reading assignment and analyze the records of 12
orthodontic cases chosen to cover the following topics:
- Indications for early orthodontic treatment
- Orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning of sagittal, vertical, and transverse malocclusions
- Adjunctive orthodontic treatment for adults
This method of learning involves the active participation of the students in their learning through
generating hypotheses to explain the problems under discussion, contributing resources and knowledge
to the group, and demonstrating the ability to understand and apply the available evidence to analyze the
case.