{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The DOC Podcast","title":"At What Age Should We Begin Orthodontic Treatment? (w/Dr. Marianna Evans) [Ep.119]","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5996,"description":"Don’t miss this AMAZING conversation with Dr. Marianna Evans!  As a dual-trained orthodontist/periodontist and expert in anthropology, she offers a unique perspective on the etiology of malocclusion, the periodontal consequences of the traditional approach to orthodontic treatment, and the numerous benefits of initiating orthodontic treatment in younger children.  She is also very knowledgeable about how airway patency impacts craniofacial growth and development and is passionate about the role the orthodontist can and should play in airway management. \n \nDr. Evans and I discuss:\nWhy and how she decided to open her own practice from scratch in 2011, and how it’s going now.\nHer educational background, including why she decided to obtain degrees in both orthodontics and periodontics, and how it has helped her be a better orthodontist.\nHow she developed an interest in, and eventually a passion for, anthropology by studying the Morton Skull Collection while at UPenn.\nThe problem with using transverse norms based on post-industrial skulls.\nWhy humans today can no longer accommodate 32 teeth, and why that is a bigger problem than we may realize.\nHow diet and obstructed nasal breathing are turning malocclusion into a pandemic.\nThe role of the orthodontist’s ego in the prevention of the advancement of our profession.\nMarianna’s advice to residents and young docs regarding questioning what they learn in their orthodontic residency.\nWhat the research says about providing orthodontic treatment to patients in the primary dentition.\nHow the refusal of orthodontists to treat patients at a younger age will lead to the death of our specialty.\nThe thinning of the alveolar bone that inevitably occurs during all orthodontic tooth movement.\nWhy we should be more focused on developing the jaws in the primary dentition to allow the teeth to erupt into the center of the ridge.\nThe need for orthodontists to look at their cases 20 years after treatment, and how that could change their...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Wf6VIMhB_ulpfJzsJlix0BOF0i4W9yk8xxJ6-5X1Y6E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxOTI3LzE2OTg2/MzExNDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}