The current domestic orthodontic practitioners are many, confusing situation is also quite a lot, forgive me for saying that orthodontic professionals are in relatively short supply, which is positive friends to be cautious. In fact, orthodontics is the rise of the eighties, orthodontic faculty is very short, the reason is that the eighties out of several domestic universities sent individual teachers to the United States and Japan, Hong Kong to learn orthodontics, and then back to carry out fixed orthodontic appliances, orthodontics only began to be established separately in dental colleges, before more than and veneers are combined together. Think about it, such a rate of development, the faculty is far from enough, so from the 1980s to the present, dental undergraduate students are only exposed to a little theoretical textbook knowledge, can not enter the clinical practice and learning, because the teaching faculty is very insufficient to meet the teaching of undergraduate. Therefore, orthodontics has been a continuing education program after graduation, which means you have to graduate from the undergraduate program before you can study orthodontics clinically. The first way is to go to graduate school (orthodontic graduate school), which is the orthodontic specialist from the class (because the number of class is very small, so they are very proud), the early orthodontic graduate school only graduated a few each year, now the expansion of enrollment, slightly more, but compared to our national population, and other dental specialties However, compared with the population of our country, and other postgraduate students of other dental specialties (other specialties started early, before the liberation already have) is still very short. The second way, because the first way is very difficult, plus only young people can study orthodontics, so the second way, is to go to the orthodontic department of higher education institutions to study, if it is a two-year or one-year study, is also a solid foundation, but unfortunately, this kind of training places in each university is only a dozen or so each year, is also very tight, each doctor in order to be able to get orthodontic In order to get the orthodontic training places (because the current situation of the society is that there are a lot of oral surgeons, but there is a lack of orthodontists), they also have to try every trick to get in. The third way, is the short-term study classes, cultural fast food should be born, a week or even three months, or even half a year, of course, the longer the time, the more solid the foundation, which is not to be questioned. I do not dare to say that doctors who do not come from the class are not good, orthodontics on the one hand is the theory, on the one hand is talent and perception, experience is only in the third place, occasionally I have seen some clinicians who did not come from the class, although only to study for a longer period of time, is indeed talented and perceptive, is to do a good job. However, if we look at the current situation of the whole country and even the world, there is no doubt that the doctors who do the best job are those who come from the medical class, and the overall quality of the medical class (from diagnosis, treatment level to clinical efficacy) is much higher than the doctors who study orthodontics. I provide these status quo, please all orthodontists, when choosing a doctor, you may want to inquire more, including the doctor’s academic background, medical ethics reputation, do not just look at the publicity, do not just look at the doctor’s title, the domestic medical system title evaluation, there are certain defects and limitations in it. There are many “specialists” (currently in China, as long as the deputy chief physician can be listed as a “specialist”), he may be a general dentist, or he is a (restorative dentistry) dental inlay, (internal dentistry) fillings, (oral surgery) extraction of the deputy director or So what? He has nothing to do with orthodontics (orthodontic specialty), but we do not have legislation in China that does not allow non-orthodontic dentists to practice orthodontic treatment, which is a big difference from foreign countries. In many foreign places, if you do not obtain the qualification of orthodontist to engage in orthodontic treatment, it is illegal. We should not take the price as the position, if the orthodontic treatment is not professional, it is impossible to establish normal and good bite relationship, so that your teeth are neat and beautiful, but you pay the price of losing oral health, whether the bite relationship is established in the orthodontic treatment is difficult for the general public to identify (only outside the dental profession can identify), so how do you dare to give yourself to a doctor casually? How can you trust yourself to a doctor? Out of my personal conscience and concern for the status quo, I offer the above comments as a reminder only. I wish you all orthodontists the best of luck in finding your ideal orthodontist and may your teeth become beautiful and have a healthy and good bite.