Postural Orthodontics
Advanced Course Phase 4 Live Mentoring
12-Month Exclusive One to One & Group Mentorship Program With Dr. Wong
Before you enroll in this mentorship program you need to apply here. It only takes ~5-10 minutes to complete the application form. After your submission, Dr Wong will review them within 48-72 hours and we'll revert via email to set up a 1:1 Zoom Video call with Dr. Wong to see if the program is a good fit.
ADVANCED/MENTORING STUDENT SHARES HER EXPERIENCES...
Program Summary
A 12-18 Month Mentoring Program Which You Can Pay Quarterly...
Only pay 3-months at a time: While the Phase 4 experience is at a minimum a 12 month mentoring program, we understand that you may only wish to trial your mentoring experience with Dr. Wong so we allow you to pay on a quarterly basis where you can discontinue at any time. (For ease of logistics, you are enrolled in auto pay every 3 months and you just have to email us if you don't want the next 3-months of mentoring etc. After one year, you can enroll in another 12-months of live fortnightly mentoring and pay on a quarterly basis - and discontinue also after each quarter).
However, should you decide to discontinue at any point before your complete at least 12 months of mentoring, your access to the live fortnightly mentoring (and personalized review of your cases and other student's cases), Phase 4 resources and recordings of all past Phase 4 group Zoom calls from inception...stop as well. Once you invest in a full year of Phase 4 however, then you will get ongoing access to the recordings of that first year of Phase 4 recordings for future review. (The same goes for following years). And so long as we're still in the business of teaching, you will still have access to these recordings and resources indefinitely as a point of reference once you've completed each 12 months of mentoring.
EXAMPLE OF STUDENT'S SUBMITTED CASE STUDY (REVIEWED OVER TIME BY DR. WONG)
ADVANCED/MENTORING STUDENT SHARE HER EXPERIENCES...
Getting Your Case Studies Reviewed Inside a HIPAA Compliant Platform
You can submit your own patient case studies for evaluation by Dr. Wong (up to 2 cases per fortnightly Zoom meeting) inside the 'Healthie' HIPAA compliant platform which is very secure.
Dr. Wong will provide written feedback for cases submitted and may also provide verbal feedback during the fortnightly sessions depending on whether that fortnightly session permits given whatever else is being covered that group class. On these mentoring calls which last on average 3 hours you can also get help with whatever areas you need a better understanding of that was covered in previous trainings. We will provide specific guidelines and protocols for case submission (for example, you will need to submit cases inside Power Point slides similar to the format you saw inside Phase 3.) For Phase 4, we only allow 'expansion only cases' (mild skeletal malocclusion) to be submitted for review.
Dr. Wong will provide written feedback for cases submitted and may also provide verbal feedback during the fortnightly sessions depending on whether that fortnightly session permits given whatever else is being covered that group class. On these mentoring calls which last on average 3 hours you can also get help with whatever areas you need a better understanding of that was covered in previous trainings. We will provide specific guidelines and protocols for case submission (for example, you will need to submit cases inside Power Point slides similar to the format you saw inside Phase 3.) For Phase 4, we only allow 'expansion only cases' (mild skeletal malocclusion) to be submitted for review.
Please note, you can join at any time during the year and each 'Qtr' you enroll in, gets you access to the next 6 fortnightly Q&A calls (ie you do not have to join at the beginning of each quarter as listed below - you could start say in May or August or whenever you've completed Phase 3 recorded training at your convenience.)
DOCUSIGN AGREEMENT: FOR HIPAA COMPLIANT PRIVACY PLATFORM
As part of this Advanced Phase 4 program. you will need to sign an electronic agreement to get access to our HIPAA compliant platform (which is very secure) where the live Q&A sessions are housed. You will be sent an electronic document (via DocuSign) to sign online: "Agreement to Participate in the Postural Orthodontics Advanced Course & Mentorship Programme". Most likely you would have signed this agreement as part of Advanced Phase 1, 2 and 3.
This online agreement essentially acknowledges that your submitted patient case studies for Dr Wong's review have received consent from the patient's family that you can use their records for educational purposes. We will also have specific guidelines regarding how to submit these cases (so to keep private your patient details and keep his/her identity anonymous etc.)
ADVANCED/MENTORING STUDENTS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES...
DOCUSIGN AGREEMENT: FOR HIPAA COMPLIANT PRIVACY PLATFORM
REGISTration options
Please note: To register for Phase 4, you must have completed Phase 1, 2 and 3 already. Register here.
You can join any time during the year!
Before enrolling in Phase 4, you need to fill out the application form here and then have an interview with Dr Wong to see if it's a good fit for both parties. If you've already spoken to Dr. Wong as part of joining Phase 1, 2 and 3 then this call won't be necessary unless either party would like to set up an additional call.
Please email us at info@straightteethnaturally.com to see if there are any openings available in this personalized mentoring program and if so schedule a time for a 30 minute interview.
Please email us at info@straightteethnaturally.com to see if there are any openings available in this personalized mentoring program and if so schedule a time for a 30 minute interview.
PHASE 4
12-MONTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM WITH GROUP Q&A PLUS 1:1 CASE REVIEWS
CURRENT PRICING
US$13,997
4 QTRLY PAYMENTS OF US$3,500**
OR one payment of US$12,997
(email us for the 1 payment option)
(PRICES IN USD*)
* For Australians, this price includes GST
** You can discontinue at the end of each quarter - just email us at info@straightteethnaturally.com to stop the quarterly auto-pay
FORTNIGHTLY Zoom LIVESTREAM INTERACTIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH DR WONG OVER 1 year (24 SESSIONs: each a min. of 2.5 to 3 hours)
FORTNIGHTLY CASE EVALUATIONS BY DR WONG IN OUR HIPAA COMPLIANT CHAT FORUM ('HEALTHIE' platform) OVER 3 MONTHS
faq
Will Dr. Wong supervise 'Orthotropic' cases - severe malocclusions?
Right now Dr. Wong will only supervise cases that are mild to moderate malocclusions. (If you need clarification of what this constitutes, you can discuss this with him on the application call.)
Dr. Wong only wants to teach and mentor on what is 'evidence based'. Right now he has submitted 140+ consecutively treated cases of his for peer review research and until the results of this research are published (and in a positive manner) Dr. Wong has decided he will NOT supervise cases that require Orthotropic type treatment techniques as pioneered by his mentor, Prof. John Mew.
For those who are interested in the theory of Orthotropics and how Dr. Wong applies such techniques in his own practice, he has created a recorded online course which we call "Phase-5" training - "A 2-Day Introduction to Orthotropics". Please note, this course is for educational purposes only and does NOT include any coaching or support from Dr. Wong.
If you are interested in this online training which you can watch at your own pace please email us at info@StraightTeethNaturally.com
Dr. Wong only wants to teach and mentor on what is 'evidence based'. Right now he has submitted 140+ consecutively treated cases of his for peer review research and until the results of this research are published (and in a positive manner) Dr. Wong has decided he will NOT supervise cases that require Orthotropic type treatment techniques as pioneered by his mentor, Prof. John Mew.
For those who are interested in the theory of Orthotropics and how Dr. Wong applies such techniques in his own practice, he has created a recorded online course which we call "Phase-5" training - "A 2-Day Introduction to Orthotropics". Please note, this course is for educational purposes only and does NOT include any coaching or support from Dr. Wong.
If you are interested in this online training which you can watch at your own pace please email us at info@StraightTeethNaturally.com
How Do I Discontinue The Mentorship Program?
While the Phase 4 experience is intended to be a 12 month mentoring program (which you can renew every year), we understand that you may only wish to trial your mentoring experience with Dr. Wong so we allow you to pay on a quarterly basis where you can discontinue at any time. For ease of logistics, you are enrolled in auto pay every 3 months and you just have to email us at info@straightteethnaturally.com if you don't want the next 3-months of mentoring etc.
However, should you decide to discontinue at any point, your access to the live fortnightly mentoring (and personalized review of your cases), Phase 4 resources and recordings of all past Phase 4 group Zoom calls from inception...stop as well.
Are There Any Minimum Requirements To Stay In the Mentoring Program?
Yes.
Our goal is to help teach and mentor other dentists who are on the same mission to duplicate the results Dr. Wong has achieved these past 15+ years in the area of early intervention. As such, in our experience it is absolutely critical that you are 100% 'all in' before you consider joining this committed group of students. This will require a minimum attendance of 4 out of 6 fortnightly live sessions before you are eligible to continue another quarter. If you cannot achieve this, and don't have a valid reason, we have the option of discontinuing your involvement each quarter.
Perhaps more importantly, we need a minimum submission of 2 separate case records at least every 4-6 weeks so Dr. Wong can see where you're at with your patients. Case records that you need to submit (photos, xrays etc) are similar to the format set out for Phase 3 cases. You have of course the option to submit up to 2 cases per fortnight. Over time you are able to submit not only 2 new cases every fortnight, but you can submit 2-3 older cases for quick review also. So long as the 30 minute allocated time per person is adhered to, Dr Wong can give feedback to these 2-3 older cases as well.
Our goal is to help teach and mentor other dentists who are on the same mission to duplicate the results Dr. Wong has achieved these past 15+ years in the area of early intervention. As such, in our experience it is absolutely critical that you are 100% 'all in' before you consider joining this committed group of students. This will require a minimum attendance of 4 out of 6 fortnightly live sessions before you are eligible to continue another quarter. If you cannot achieve this, and don't have a valid reason, we have the option of discontinuing your involvement each quarter.
Perhaps more importantly, we need a minimum submission of 2 separate case records at least every 4-6 weeks so Dr. Wong can see where you're at with your patients. Case records that you need to submit (photos, xrays etc) are similar to the format set out for Phase 3 cases. You have of course the option to submit up to 2 cases per fortnight. Over time you are able to submit not only 2 new cases every fortnight, but you can submit 2-3 older cases for quick review also. So long as the 30 minute allocated time per person is adhered to, Dr Wong can give feedback to these 2-3 older cases as well.
further information about postural orthodontics
What are the learning objectives of Postural Orthodontics?
- Evaluating facial growth patterns and a rational choice of diagnostic and therapeutic orthodontic treatment procedures in the developing malocclusion
- Minimizing skeletal, dentoalveolar and muscular problems, by the end of the transition to the permanent dentition.
- Simplifying and/or shorting treatment time for later corrective orthodontics
Why learn Postural Orthodontics & the GOPex Method?
- Improves facial harmony
- Creates room for crowded teeth & increases tongue space
- Reduces airway collapsibility
- Stabilizes orthodontic corrections
- Helping the largely ignored market of 3-11 year olds
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Makes it possible to have straight teeth naturally
Historically, orthodontic literature rarely advocates for Phase 1 therapies because very few have shown improvement over teenage fixed appliance protocols.
Postural Orthodontics and the GOPex exercises is a new, innovative way of early intervention orthodontics that has been highly effective. Our approach, based on Orthotropic principles and foundations, addresses malocclusion based wholly on clinically trialled & proven methods.
And when it comes to sleep disorder breathing and vital function health, new research points out the many great benefits of targeted early intervention—which is precisely the reason for our methodology.
Why the GOPex Method?
GOPex (Good Oral Posture exercises) are powerful and effective in improving airway disorders and compliance issues.
That’s because they strike at the very root of malocclusion.
They are short (10-15 minutes), simple exercises that are easily incorporated into the family’s daily routine, truly helping patients change their habits—unlike the majority of myology programmes.
Dr. Sandra Kahn has also developed the GOPEX App. to optimize compliance. Using the app, parents can get direct feedback from the practitioner on their child’s exercise techniques.
Please download for free our GOPex book to learn more. Or you can purchase a copy on Amazon here.
Why the Postural Orthodontics system?
Postural Orthodontics is a unique approach to early intervention utilizing existing techniques (Orthotropic principles and appliances) and new methods and protocols that are evidence-based and results oriented.
Functional Orthopedics has been practised for almost 100 years. Most orthodontic systems use some form of functional expansion appliance, incorporating orofacial myology.
Our orthodontic profession theorizes that bone growth can be stimulated by functional activity. Accordingly, conventional phase 1 appliances & exercises leverage functional movement, hoping to stimulate jaw growth.
But these treatments haven’t been proven effective in creating substantial, lasting changes.
In fact, over the last 40 years of clinical trials, we have never been able to show significant clinical changes through any of the traditional phase 1 treatment systems.
They move teeth around a bit better but don’t help the jaw to grow better.
The GOPex method primarily assists in improving the rest positions of the jaws & muscles. It’s considered posturally-focused, rather than functionally focused. This is a critical distinction because body growth happens only at postural rest, not in functional motion.
Over the past 10 years of research in clinical practice, we have generated hundreds of case studies showing significant results.
The first 145 cases have been accepted for research evaluation at the University of Alberta, University of Valencia and Autonomous National University of Mexico. In addition, as of July 2021, we are now excited to announce that highly renowned Orthodontic Researcher - Dr. Peter Buschang of Texas A&M will be starting research on my clinical cases specifically related to hyper-divergence.
Preliminary findings presented at the Summer meeting of Spanish orthodontics society 2019 by Prof José Luis Gandía - Franco from the University of Valencia in Spain, showed more than promising results.
We compared our Postural Orthodontics method with the standard twin-bloc approach (the most popular functional appliance) in a class-2, division-1 malocclusion case.
We had 3 to 7-fold improvements over what twin-bloc could provide.
As expected, the functional appliances only affected the dental alveolar bone, with no skeletal change. Whereas our method resulted in improvements of 3.46 degrees in ANB (vs 1.37) and 1.92 degrees of reduction in Y-axis (vs .26).
Each presenter has a different philosophy and technique so it becomes very confusing having to decide who is "more' right than the other and whose philosophy/technique to "buy into". What was your journey into Orthotropics and how is Postural Orthodontics different from other early intervention courses and techniques?
How It All Began
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How I Got into Teaching and the Forwardontics Connection...
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Sandra is my counterpart in character and personality. My two talents are the ability to recognise what is important and the capability of taking the complex and explaining it simply. Hers is the gift of drawing together the talented with the influential.
Together we formed an unlikely partnership and co-authored the book GOPex (Good Oral Posture Exercises: a set of exercises based on my grandmother’s culture of manners and presentation). Sandra then formalized GOPex into a technology App that has the potential to remind all generations to come of what is possible…
…of how we are meant to behave and who we are meant to be.
Sandra took what was just a backwater experiment in my tiny clinic Down Under and launched it into the heart of the community of Europe’s oldest Orthodontic University and then onwards to those institutions of influence around the world.
From my unwavering belief in John’s Tropic Premise and her decisive support of my contribution to our profession via her company, Forwardontics, she gave me an initial platform to share what I had learnt with the world.
From a clinical perspective, what I do, is take 7 and 8-year-olds who have grown in malformation and laboriously, painstakingly and unrelentingly, create a semblance of harmony.
Documenting the process in detail so that I can share my work with other colleagues hasn't been easy...but this is what I have set out to do with Postural Orthodontics.
My method takes the egocentric doctor out of the equation of a child’s life and returns the responsibility of a child’s upbringing into the hands of those who truly care for their well-being, their parents.
Postural Orthodontics is in some sense a stepping stone to more complicated Orthotropic cases, introducing dentists to a safe and structured approach to treating milder malocclusions "expansion only cases".
At 55, I am who I am. No time soon will I be giving up my "carrot and stick" but for those who look to me for guidance, be glad the Forwardontics connection paved the path that encourages all of us to find our way home...and for this, I am truly grateful to Sandra and others who are on the same holistic mission to revolutionize the lives of our children.
Together we formed an unlikely partnership and co-authored the book GOPex (Good Oral Posture Exercises: a set of exercises based on my grandmother’s culture of manners and presentation). Sandra then formalized GOPex into a technology App that has the potential to remind all generations to come of what is possible…
…of how we are meant to behave and who we are meant to be.
Sandra took what was just a backwater experiment in my tiny clinic Down Under and launched it into the heart of the community of Europe’s oldest Orthodontic University and then onwards to those institutions of influence around the world.
From my unwavering belief in John’s Tropic Premise and her decisive support of my contribution to our profession via her company, Forwardontics, she gave me an initial platform to share what I had learnt with the world.
From a clinical perspective, what I do, is take 7 and 8-year-olds who have grown in malformation and laboriously, painstakingly and unrelentingly, create a semblance of harmony.
Documenting the process in detail so that I can share my work with other colleagues hasn't been easy...but this is what I have set out to do with Postural Orthodontics.
My method takes the egocentric doctor out of the equation of a child’s life and returns the responsibility of a child’s upbringing into the hands of those who truly care for their well-being, their parents.
Postural Orthodontics is in some sense a stepping stone to more complicated Orthotropic cases, introducing dentists to a safe and structured approach to treating milder malocclusions "expansion only cases".
At 55, I am who I am. No time soon will I be giving up my "carrot and stick" but for those who look to me for guidance, be glad the Forwardontics connection paved the path that encourages all of us to find our way home...and for this, I am truly grateful to Sandra and others who are on the same holistic mission to revolutionize the lives of our children.
Left to right, back row: Prof. Jose Luis Gandia, Franco, Dr. Bill Hang, Dr. Mike Mew, Dr. Simon Wong, Dr. German Ramirez, Prof. Dror Aizenbud, Dr. Kevin Boyd
Left to right, front row: Dr. Sandra Kahn, Prof. John Mew, Dr. Maria Jose Munoz, Ms Esther Gokhale
Left to right: Dr. Mike Mew,Dr. Simon Wong, Dr. Bill Hang, Prof. John Mew
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