Does anyone know how the orthodontic residency at BronxCare is?
Bronxcare ortho residency
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It's a paid program so that's great (most hospital based ones are). Pretty good patient volume, but not a lot of faculty.
Are there any particular things you're looking for in a program?
I spent 2 days there.
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I don't know how to compares it to other programs but I would say that the residents get experience in wire bending for things like uprighting molars and other movements, molar substitution, traditional and invisalign, iTero scanner use, appliances like palatal expander or headgear. I have seen TAD, canine chain, plenty of serial extraction cases.
As far as I am aware, I do not believe this program does craniofacial ortho. I have not seen NAM, ortho for perio, ortho within a full mouth rehab plan or ortho extrusion for fixed restorations. I've also not seen Herbst.
The nice thing about this program is that OS, peds, perio, and GPR are all in the same building on the same floor and emergencies can be dealt with quickly should they arise. There's decent referral from Peds/GPR plus outside referrals. The unfortunate things I've noticed are 1. NYS medicaid insurances often deny pediatric cases even when it is a pretty awful class 2/3 that really needs intervention which delays these kids because their parents have to appeal 2. that appointments are not well-coordinated between specialists and GP which means that GP/peds are going to ask y'all to take off wires for radiographs and put them back on after exam and cleaning and it generally will not be the same day y'all have your ortho periodic visits scheduled with the patient and 3. check up and hygiene compliance is often questionable resulting in possible difficulty in completing cases you started because your teenaged patient suddenly needs a molar or anterior tooth root canal because of 6 year molar sealants concealing something evil from the occlusal surface or under that classic class V bracket plaque, there's a deep one that hits pulp. Ask me how I know, lol.
