hey it's Dr Amanda with straight smile Solutions straightsmathsolutions.com and today we're going
to talk about um a new page I put on a website called haters and complainers only reason I put
it on is because I get emails if not every day at least every week where people are
complaining about something I posted or something I said or they disagree with me fundamentally or
biomechanically this also happens on social media and you know what you guys need to know what I go
through on a daily basis so I'm going to go ahead and start posting those removing the names so you
can kind of see my responses because they are FAQs and some of them are kind of stupid anyways
um but yeah I posted one this week and the doctor was like oh um you told one of my doctors I guess
he does Ortho Consulting I don't know who it is um and or he's very familiar with ortho but
he uses a lot of more old-fashioned mechanics which is not something that I'm not familiar
with I'm quite familiar with that's how it was trained all these t-loops and Gable bends and
all those kind of cattle lever stuff um yeah that's exactly how I was trained I was trained
by Charlie birthstone himself directly when he was alive and kicking he was an amazing individual
absolutely brilliant and there's I I'm very happy that I was trained that way because I get it but
as I started to get into practice and have I had my own mentors and I started trying new things
I realized I don't need that stuff and first of all it's just not realistic unless you are in a
country where there are no other orthodontists where patients can't complain in the United
States that is not gonna fly to have that kind of stuff it's just not the parents are going to be
like shutting you down they're going to post it on social media they're going to ruin your your brand
they're going to ruin your I mean now in this day of Instagram you can't be putting that kind
of weird mechanics in the patients I know that they work and you may think they work better but
there's other ways to do things so that's why my response to this doctor was dude that's old school
you know you can do it other ways nowadays with classic and with Invisalign I can get absolute
Anchorage or I can put in absolute Anchorage and yes you can do tads and I try to avoid
those as much as possible I think I've done one or two cases my whole life no need and a lot of
times you know what you're going to involve an omt you know oral myofunctional therapist you got to
correct the habit and and don't try to do things that most of the time if you're trying to do that
kind of mechanics where you have to do loops and bends and things like that t-loops uh you probably
shouldn't be doing it check the profile check the ceph because it's probably not the right thing for
the patient so I have zero problems saying no I'm not gonna do that you need jaw surgery I'm
sorry I'm not going to wreck your profile even if it could be done I'm not going to do it because
it's wrong for you it looks bad you're going to function bad I'm not going to be happy about it
you're not going to be happy about it so let's not do it sure there'll always be somebody who
does stuff like this and they can go to that doctor if that's what they want but it's not
the right thing to do so that was my answer was that there's always other ways around it I know
that this does work but there's better ways to do it especially if you start considering phase
one Orthodontics that is that is the key let's get these but why do this heroic kind of braces
bendy work when you can get things right to begin with and start doing phase one or the
fixing bites when they're little and not having all these major problems when they're older just
we need to have a fundamental shift in the way we think and they're still just way way way not
enough orthodontists out there that believe in Phase One Ortho it just horrifies me when you
see a kid with obviously mandibular deficiency you know and they're like oh we can wait till
comprehensive it's like no no we can't no we can't wait that's not an option and you know just
additional thought you guys need to be putting pressure on the insurance companies not only
educating the patients because they don't want to pay twice in their brains but putting pressure on
the insurance companies to start realizing this is a health issue they need to be approving phase
one Ortho and not penalizing knowing that we need two phases of Ortho a lot some money towards phase
one and some money towards phase two you know so that parents can afford to get what they need for
their patients and the phase two should not be very long if you do proper phase one treatment
and expand the right sizes and grow Jaws the right way it's not just straightening front
teeth that's not what phase one is about all right anyways so hopefully I clarified that thank you