Love & Orthodontics
Love & Orthodontics
Dr Chris Baker is a pediatric dentist, faculty member of three dental schools, longtime AAPD member and American Orthodontic Society Past President. She practices in Texas. Dr Chris writes about orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and life.
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Revolutionary Ortho with Sagittal Correction
Sagittal Correction! Dr Chris Baker talks about this game-changing treatment for orthodontic patients that improves treatment success and shortens treatment time. It even works in transitional dentition. Two online courses taught by Dr Chris teach how.   Read More
Categories: Orthodontics, Pediatric
The Story of Lori
In Dental Medicine, our mission MUST be excellence.  It must be what is absolute best for your patient.  This video will review how a severely inflamed tooth can OFTEN be allowed to heal and avoid the Root Canal Treatment that renders the tooth non-vital for life, brittle, and less likely to be...  Read More
Treating Child Patients Without Sedation or GA
Treating Child Patients Without Sedation or GA: Dr Chris Baker discusses.    Read More
The Dentist's Mistake
The dentist’s mistake. I've been there.  So have you.  Many times, all of us.  As to retainers and the dentist’s mistake, Here's the solution. Dr Chris Online:   Online Curriculum:    Read More
Retainer Stories: Fees; Retainer Insurance; Re-Makes?
Today, I talk about broken, lost, non-fitting, bent, damaged retainers.  When do you repair? When do you remake the retainer? Fees??? How do you charge? And do YOU offer retainer insurance?  It makes parent, patient and YOU happy!   Read More
Categories: Orthodontics, Pediatric
Can You Anticipate Relapse in Your Ortho Patient?
Dr. Chris answers the questions for today: How can you predict with reasonable certainty, what relapse will occur in your orthodontic patient after braces and appliances are completed and removed?  And, how can retention reduce it?   Read More
Whose Retainer Is It?
If you do orthodontics, I'll bet you've heard this: "Doctor, YOUR RETAINER is broken!"   Here is how to make "Letting Go and Letting the Patient" work.     Read More
How Many Opiod PMP Hours Do You Need to Renew Your License?
Most states require instruction in Opiod Rx/PMP for dental license renewal. Dr Chris Baker's new online course in Opiods/ PMP provides 4 Hours of ADA CERP credit for dentists and dental professionals and is designed to meet the TX regulation to include 2 hours specific to PMP knowledge.     Read More
Question the Research
Who is behind the research?   Who has editorial control?   Read More
Does the Research impact us?
The voluminous Research and your potential liability and other problems.    Read More
Just What Is 'Evidence Based'?
We learn “The Science”.   Educated in a foreign language and fascinations...   Read More
We Are Doctors (Part 1)
What is a doctor? Is there a sacred trust? What makes it important?  We’re not just supposed to make our money and leave.  There is a higher purpose. Dr. Chris Baker explains.     Read More
Are you driving a 1995 dental practice into 2021?
Here's how to upgrade YOUR practice.    Read More
Passion for a GREAT Ortho Finish
The passion in Orthodontics includes a passion for an EXCELLENT finished case. This is the VLOG version of my article in the Fall, 2020 issue of the JAOS (Journal of the American Orthodontic Society).    Read More
Find Joy in Doing What Few Others Would
If you are a doctor who loves treating children, you may find incredible joy and transformation of YOU, as well as of patients, in treating without sedation or O.R. THEN, the child AND parent can become greater, more capable, more appreciative and healthier.   Read More
Mediocrity vs. Excellence
Your excellence helps patients and parents with much more than dental and orthodontic health.  Here is how that works.    Read More
Using Orthodontic and Orthopedic Therapies With Child Patients: When & How?
Let's discuss how to determine the needs, if present, in the growing child in primary and/or mixed/transitional dentition.  How to examine?  Is there a need?  And, if so, how to diagnose and plan which therapies would be best for the child.   Read More
‘My 3-Year-Old is Mouth-Breathing. What Do I Do?’
Often, I get questions from parents - including other dentists - about developmental challenges with their own children. This particular question from a dentist-DAD, about a 3-year-old mouth-breathing child, deals with a frequently-encountered developmental problem in small children.   Read More
What Pedo Is Still Missing
The pediatric dentist can do amazing — almost miraculous — life-transforming treatment WHEN he/she  provides outstanding, needed orthodontic and orthopedic treatments.  Here’s where to get  outstanding  orthodontic education. Joy for you and joy for the parents and patients!    Read More
Straight Wire Orthodontics Is Not Enough
Why is Straight Wire Orthodontics NOT enough?   Why do our pre-programmed brackets not give us desired finished results?   Read More
Heart-Brain Communication
To understand the heart-brain connection is to possess a priceless skill when you work with your young patients and their parents.    Read More
The Dehumanizing Effects of Facemasks
During COVID-19, facemasks became common in many places. Humans are social, evolutionarily hard-wired to connect by looking at each others’ faces. Children’s maldevelopment and psychological effects on children and adults of wearing facemasks can be debilitating.   Read More
The 'Hot Rod' of Ortho Courses
Not all orthodontics courses are the same.  Some are super-charged, with lots of power and insight about a subject that deceptively appears to be simple.    Read More
The Sedation of America's Children
The sedation of America's children has been both at-home and, all too often, at the dental office.  This is problematic, wherever it occurs. There is a better way.    Read More
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