Why does mathematics matter to orthodontics? Listen to mathematicians, policymakers, and educators and the answer seems unanimous: mathematics is everywhere, therefore every clinician should care about it.
The theoretical view within orthodontics
Orthodontics is a unique science in dentistry, which compares directly to many different fields. It is shown to gravitate more towards certain fields in other sciences than other forms of dentistry. Fields that are confluent in orthodontics which are relatively different when compared to others include metallurgy, physics and dynamics, mechanics and moments and the underlying components of mathematics bind them all together.
Understanding Orthodontics
The finite element method is invariably helpful, statistics, probability, machine learning and mathematical modelling, ratios and Knot Theory to name a few methods we utilise here at Cephtactics.