正畸和口腔颌面骨科证书，以及口腔生物学理学硕士

UNLV牙科医学院，正畸和牙颌骨高级教育学院提供为期34个月的硕士学位和证书住院医师课程。班级人数每年为六名居民，从七月开始。该计划旨在提供在正畸和牙颌骨矫正领域的广泛的教学，临床，研究和教学经验。该计划的重点是使毕业生为成功完成董事会认证所需的所有考试和案例演示做准备，并成为美国正畸委员会的文凭。所需总学分：147
The UNLV School of Dental Medicine, Advanced Education Program in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics offers a 34-month combined Master's Degree and Certificate residency program. The class size is six residents per year and begins during July. The program is designed to offer a broad spectrum of didactic, clinical, research, and teaching experience in the field of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics. The emphasis of the program is to prepare the graduate for successful completion of all examinations and case presentations required for board certification and to become a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics.<br><br>The program trains the resident to have a broad knowledge and understanding of growth and development, diagnosis and treatment planning, biomechanics, craniofacial anomalies, interdisciplinary dentistry, surgical orthodontics, research methodology, classic and current review of the literature, and teaching experiences. Patient care is conducted in a state of the art orthodontic clinic and technology is available for complete electronic patient records, as well as the latest in radiographic and diagnostic digital imaging. Patients are screened and accepted for treatment based on the level of treatment difficulty, educational benefit and needs of the orthodontic residents. These treatment cases represent a cross-section of the cases encountered in private practice to ensure the residents preparedness to practice orthodontics in a diverse population.