Benefits of Online Continuing Education for Professional License …

Dentistry is a unique area of health care.  Delivering dental treatment typically includes very close “in your face” contact with a patient while invading their body cavity (inside their mouth).  In addition to that the patient is typically awake, gazing into the dentist’s eyes and face – very close contact.  And, many people are apprehensive and nervous making the entire process daunting for both patient and dentist. 

Orthodontics is one of those specialty dental areas.  Defined, “Ortho” means “straight” and “dontics” refers to teeth. After completing dental school an additional 3 years of specialty education is required. Orthodontic residency class sizes are small and exclusive with only 4 – 6 students admitted each year. In addition to treating patients, orthodontic residents study human facial growth, facial type analysis, orthodontic history, craniofacial anatomy, jaw function and dysfunction (TMJ/TMD), management of complex dental and surgical cases, craniofacial anomalies, dentofacial aging, as well as the complex area of orthodontic mechanics.

After graduating it’s essential that orthodontists keep current with the latest advances in the specialty.  As well, each State has specific and mandatory continuing education requirements. In that regard, the individual person knows their best learning environment.  Some prefer the classroom or study group with live feedback and camaraderie.  Others are more solitary preferring journals and textbooks. Now, we have the option for “24/7” orthodontic education on the Internet.  Here, I’ve discovered that the on-line consumer of education prefers face-to-face contact with the presenter.  Of less appeal is the “fly on the wall” internet experience where the person logging in feels more like just another face amidst the great unwashed.  With that in mind I developed gnathosCE.com, a format that offers a more engaging, personalized experience where I’m speaking one-on-one to the viewer.  The site is available to all interested health care providers including the “exceptional employee”.

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