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Orthodontists are incentivized against embracing orthotropics by their current knowledge and business model. They prefer interventions they can charge for (brac
by Empact 8y ago
Orthodontists are incentivized against embracing orthotropics by their current knowledge and business model. They prefer interventions they can charge for (braces, slenderizing) over practices which can be adopted without intervention. This may be why the field emerged from dentists rather than orthodontists.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”
— Upton Sinclair
- jnbiche 8y ago> This may be why the field emerged from dentists rather than orthodontists. Orthodontists are dentists.
- baolongtrann 8y agobut dentists aren't always orthodontists. I think OP meant those that aren't.
- Empact 8y agoI'm referring to dentists who do not practice orthodontistry, and therefore do not have careers hinging on the status quo.
- gregcrv 8y agoYes and they call themselves functional orthodontists http://www.aafo.org/ http://www.aafo.org/