Postgraduate Program in Orthodontics

The Postgraduate Program in Orthodontics aims to train graduate dentists in the Discipline of Orthodontics, to promote the knowledge and the research development in this specific field and to prepare the dentists in order to practice Orthodontics within a modern and advanced level, providing full and wide academic treatment and adequate clinical experience in several treatment methods. The program aims to train the Dentist theoretically and practically in a way that at the end of his studies he will be able to:

(a) To recognize and understand the malocclusions of the teeth and the dentofacial complex in general, as well as the malfunction of the maxillofacial complex

(b) To apply preventive, interceptive or therapeutic treatment for the management of the above-mentioned malocclusions with appropriate teeth movement or with control of the growth of the dentofacial complex through orthodontic or orthopedic forces respectively.

(c) To co-operate with other experts in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with skeletal dentofacial deformities, craniofacial anomalies and cases with occlusal problems, the treatment of which requires co-operation with other specialties or fields of Dentistry or Medicine.

The Program leads to the Degree "Master of Science in Orthodontics" (MSc in Orthodontics), and after successful examination by the Ministry of Health, to the Specialty in Orthodontics