Sure, but it's a more or less a formulaic process. There's not on the fly decision making or emergency responses like in orthopaedic surgery or any other surgical design. You make a mold or scan of teeth. Calculate the adjustments, make the retainer, repeat. With a more widely available tooling the process could be even more monitored. i.e. Bi-weekly instead of monthly molds for faster and more precise results.
replyAs the joke goes, $10 to tighten the bolt, $90 to know which bolt to tighten.
reply>The difficult part is not the manufacturing, but knowing how to do it properly so you don’t harm the patient.
replyAnd yet I read plenty of horror stories of bad orthodontic results. Ask me how I know.
Went to 3 different orthodontist to fix what a bad orthodontist did to me when I was a kid, and each gave me a completely different treatment plan. I feel like being an orthodontist is just eyeballing and patching your way as you go to an acceptable resolution.
Given that, shouldn't you be even more concerned about people YOLOing it, if even highly trained orthodontists are regularly screwing this up?
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