The Specialist Advisory Committee in Orthodontics has approved this degree as part of the training programme in orthodontics. It provides you with a deeper understanding of, and further technical and diagnostic skills in, orthodontics. It involves a large clinical component as well as your own research project. You will learn to diagnose anomalies of the dentition; detect development deviations; formulate a treatment plan and predict its course; evaluate the need for orthodontic treatment; carry out treatment using fixed, functional and removable appliances; treat adults, orthognathic, surgical cases and cleft-palate patients. In addition to developing your scientific approach, the programme will teach you the psychological aspects of treatment.