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CIP PROGRAM: 51.0508
Orthodontics/Orthodontology.

Summary: A program that focuses on the advanced study of the guidance of growing dental structures and the correction of misalignments, disproportionate growth, and traumas caused by genetics, disease, injuries, and dysfunctional behaviors. Includes instruction in craniofacial growth and development, malocclusion, design and fabrication of orthodontic appliances, craniofacial alignment, physiological function and analysis, cephalometrics, model analysis, space analysis, surgical orthodontics, cleft lip and palate, and treatment planning and management.

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51 HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS.
51.05 Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences.
51.0501 Dental Clinical Sciences, General.
51.0502 Advanced General Dentistry.
51.0503 Oral Biology and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.
51.0504 Dental Public Health and Education.
51.0505 Dental Materials.
51.0506 Endodontics/Endodontology.
51.0507 Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery.
51.0508 Orthodontics/Orthodontology.
51.0509 Pediatric Dentistry/Pedodontics.
51.0510 Periodontics/Periodontology.
51.0511 Prosthodontics/Prosthodontology.
51.0512 Digital Dentistry.
51.0513 Geriatric Dentistry.
51.0514 Implantology/Implant Dentistry.
51.0599 Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Other.

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