The Truth about Orthodontics: A Consumer's Guide to a Beautiful Smile

Your child needs an expander. Most people need permanent tooth extractions. You're too old for orthodontics. You'll be in treatment for about two years. Orthodontics is painful. Are these statements accurate? Not even close.

The Truth About Orthodontics: A Consumer’s Guide to a Beautiful Smile gives you the information you need to make the best decisions for your orthodontic care. Written by a globally recognized doctor who is both an orthodontist and a physician, this fact-filled and entertaining book walks you through the basics, explaining old treatments versus new developments, and debunking the lingering lies that tend to feed people’s fear of orthodontics, preventing them from enjoying the benefits a beautiful smile can provide.

Discover how the current understanding of tooth movement has transformed smile design into a process that can be shorter and more comfortable. Now, you can be prepared with the knowledge you need to find the treatment that will most benefit your smile. Engaging, humorous, and easy to read, this book about orthodontics will actually give you something to smile about.

John W. Graham, DDS, MD, is an orthodontist and physician, as well as innovator, educator, and popular lecturer. He holds a bachelor's from Brigham Young University, a dental degree from Baylor College of Dentistry, and a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, to which he added an internship in general surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital, training in oral and maxillofacial surgery, and a certificate in orthodontics from the University of Rochester Medical Center's Eastman Dental Center.

In addition to holding faculty appointments at the University of the Pacific and the University of Rochester, Dr. Graham gives presentations worldwide on the most advanced orthodontic treatment philosophies available, and he has written many professional journal articles and coauthored orthodontic textbook chapters. He has several patents pending and has been awarded a US patent for an orthodontic treatment device.

Dr. Graham and his wife, a pediatric dentist, live in Salt Lake City with their four children.