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Orthodontist

By: Calli Christiansen

Education
High School
-Take subjects such as biology, chemistry, physics,
mathematics, and anatomy

College
-Need to take certain courses similar to what you took in High School, biology, chemistry,
physics, mathematics, and anatomy

-Many dental schools require you to have a bachelors degree in Biology, Chemistry, or
Biomedical Sciences

-Junior Year, take the Dental Acceptance Test to get accepted into Dental School

-After Dental School, you will enter a residency program for at least two years, where you will
undergo training to become an orthodontist

-Next step is to get your license, you will need your dental degree, need to pass two exams

What is an
orthodontist? Relation to Chemistry?
-Orthodontics use a lot of chemistry, all of braces
-An orthodontist works in the branch of dentistry
and different retainers are using different metals.
dealing with the prevention and correction of
irregular teeth. -The two main metals used today for braces are
stainless steel and nitinol.
What does an orthodontist do? -When using stainless steel it does have a
-Orthodontists fix our jaws and teeth which we use tendency to loosen, that is why you have to go to
for talking as well as chewing and to make our the orthodontist regularly to have them tightened.
teeth beautiful.
-Nitinol is used for the wires that are attached to
your brackets, it is bendable and made to fit the
Salary shape of your teeth. From the warmth of your
-In the U.S. the median salary is about $127,000 teeth the nitinol is forced to go back to its original
per year. shape, which is the way your teeth move.

-The median salary is about $61 an hour.

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