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Can high-quality postgraduate Master's level programmes play a role in training dentists to deliver appropriate orthodontic treatment as non-specialists?

BDJ In Practice volume 37, pages 320–322 (2024)Cite this article

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  • General dentists are playing a role in the rise of orthodontic treatment provision in primary care

  • There are part-time Master's level courses that provide dentists with the knowledge and skills to treat a range of malocclusions within their level of competency without undertaking formal orthodontic specialist training

  • Patterns of orthodontics services provision and job satisfaction of Master's in orthodontics graduates demonstrates that such courses can play an essential role in training dentists to deliver appropriate orthodontic treatment as non-specialists.

General dentists are playing a role in the rise of orthodontic treatment provision in primary care

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    Jade Homfray-Jones

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    Parmjit Singh

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Homfray-Jones, J., Singh, P. Can high-quality postgraduate Master's level programmes play a role in training dentists to deliver appropriate orthodontic treatment as non-specialists?. BDJ In Pract 37, 320–322 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-024-2849-9

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