Good orthodontic treatment starts with the right diagnosis.

Orthodontic Diagnosis: See It Right Before You Treat is a focused clinical course designed to help dentists evaluate orthodontic patients systematically before starting treatment.

The course begins with extra-oral assessment, teaching you how to analyze the patient's profile, facial proportions, symmetry, and sagittal, vertical, and transverse relationships — and how these findings relate to what you see intra-orally.

You will then move into smile analysis and soft-tissue assessment, learning how to identify the possible skeletal, dental, and soft-tissue causes behind findings such as gummy smile.

Finally, the course covers the essential intra-oral photographic records together with panoramic and cephalometric assessment, helping you build a complete diagnostic picture before deciding on the appropriate treatment direction.

Through practical clinical examples, Dr. Aya Ibrahim demonstrates why similar-looking dental problems may have completely different underlying causes — and therefore require different treatment approaches.

The goal is simple: diagnose first, understand the cause, then treat.

• Learn a structured orthodontic diagnostic workflow from extra-oral to intra-oral assessment
• Connect facial findings with skeletal and dental relationships
• Differentiate skeletal, dental, and soft-tissue causes of orthodontic problems
• Understand smile analysis and the different causes of gummy smile
• Learn the essential standardized intra-oral photographic records
• Incorporate panoramic and cephalometric records into your diagnostic process
• Avoid starting treatment before identifying the true origin of the problem
• Learn through practical clinical examples and real diagnostic situations
• Free, recorded, and available for self-paced learning

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Perform a systematic extra-oral orthodontic assessment
• Evaluate facial profile, proportions, facial height, and asymmetry
• Recognize sagittal, vertical, and transverse skeletal patterns
• Relate extra-oral findings to overjet, overbite, open bite, deep bite, and crossbite
• Analyze the patient's smile and identify possible causes of excessive gingival display
• Differentiate skeletal, dental, and soft-tissue components of a clinical problem
• Obtain and evaluate the five essential intra-oral orthodontic photographs
• Use panoramic and cephalometric records as part of complete orthodontic diagnosis
• Identify cases that may require growth modification, orthodontic treatment, multidisciplinary management, or orthognathic surgery
• Build a more accurate diagnostic picture before developing the treatment plan

This course is delivered through 3 recorded online lectures focused on clinical orthodontic diagnosis and diagnostic reasoning.

The course follows a progressive approach:

1. Extra-Oral Analysis
2. Smile & Soft-Tissue Analysis
3. Intra-Oral Records, Panorama & Cephalogram

Learn at your own pace, on demand, from any device.