Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

What is the most important factor an orthodontist must consider when treating a patient?

2. What is your first answer?

Orthodontists must understand their patients' needs in order to treat them.

3. What is your second answer?

Patient compliance should be taken into account when treating a patient.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Compliance can reduce treatment time in some cases, increasing patient satisfaction.
• Not complying (i.e. not wearing rubber bands or appliances when instructed to) prolongs and reverses treatment.
• Compliance is fostered by factors directly and indirectly relating to the orthodontist, such as office environment and doctor-patient dynamic.

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

Pakravan, Darren Cyrus. "Comparison of Adult Patient- and Orthodontist-Reported Compliance and Satisfaction with Treatment Outcome." Order No. 1452688 University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

6. What other source supports your answer?

Hardy, Daniel Kenneth. "Predictors of Orthodontic Patient Compliance." Order No. 1561908 University of California, San Francisco, 2014. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.

Without compliance, there would be no point to regular orthodontic visits or paying for treatment. Something as small as not wearing retainers can take a patient back to square one and waste both time, money, and effort. If an orthodontist can ensure patient compliance, they are likely to be on a steady path to proper treatment.