Welcome

The Department was founded in 1929 with the goal of offering graduate study in orthodontics. Since its inception it has been engaged in research, teaching and patient care. The graduates have contributed greatly to the development of dentistry's oldest specialty.

The Department occupies a 6000 square-foot location on the first floor of the College of Dentistry building at the University of Illinois at Chicago with additional space as residents' lab on the second floor. Facilities include a modern orthodontic clinic and clinical laboratory; reception and waiting area; computer, data-processing, and microscopy laboratory; the Brodie Library; orthodontic technique laboratory for photography, appliance construction and plaster work; seminar room; Ricketts Research and Conference Facility; faculty offices; headquarters for ESCO, the Electronic Study Club for Orthodontics; and the Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics.

What's New?

After three months, the new construction project at the Department of Orthodontics -- the new administrative offices, multimedia classrooms, Graber Gallery and library -- is getting close to the end. Check out new photos about the progress of the construction by clicking the photo below:

Dr. Maria Therese Glang, Assistant Professor of Orthodontics, was selected by their peers to receive 2010-2011 Teaching Recognition Awards from the UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (SETL). A total of 20 UIC faculty were chosen campus wide.
The Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) recognizes the excellence of UIC faculty in their teaching activities.

For more details, please visit the Department Blog at: http://uicortho.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/dr-galang-honored-by-uic-for-teaching-excellence/

Dr. T. Peter Tsay, Professor of Orthodontics, was invited to give a 2-day continuing education seminar entitled: “Objective-based Orthodontic Technique (O.B.O.T.)” in Taipei, Taiwan June 11 and 12, 2011. Over 150 orthodontists attended the seminar. Dr. Tsay also will be in the program with Dr. R. C. “Wick” Alexander of Texas to give a one day lecture during the Ecuadorian Orthodontic Conference from September 28 to 30, 2011.

A new construction project -- the UIC Department of Orthodontics' new administrative offices, multimedia classrooms, and library -- kicked off May 23, 2011. In the meantime, Department Head Dr. Carla Evans and Clinic Director Dr. Budi Kusnoto's offices are located in Room 237. We all look forward to seeing the new administrative offices, Ricketts Room, Graber Gallery and Brodie Library in about two months.

See more pictures of the changes of the Department during the construction project by visiting:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/dort/newclassroom.html

OR http://uicortho.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/new-construction-project-at-the-uic-department-of-orthodontics/

A special symposium was hosted by Dr. Carla Evans at the UIC School of Public Health Auditorium on May 18, 2011 to pay tribute to Drs. Laura Lebret and Anna Marie Gron, two women pioneers in American orthodontics.
The symposium attracted previous and current members worldwide of the Harvard-Forsyth program and many faculty and residents at the UIC Department of Orthodontics.
Speakers recalled their memories of Drs. Lebret and Gron and honored these two wonderful female orthodontic pioneers who had dedicated their lives to orthodontic education and research.

See pictures of this special event by visiting:
http://uicortho.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/symposium-paying-tribute-to-drs-lebret-and-gron-pioneers-in-american-orthodontics/

Two UIC orthodontic residents were recognized at the May 15 Excellence in Orthodontics Awards Ceremony of the American Association of Orthodontists at the national meeting in Chicago.  Phimon Atsawasuwan received the Thomas M. Graber Research Award and Haitao Li received Second Place in the 2011 Charley Schultz Resident Scholar competition. Dr. Atsawasuwan's project “Ameloblastin Affects Cranial Suture Closure by Regulating MSX2 Expression” was mentored by Drs. Xianghong Luan and Thomas Diekwisch.  Dr. Li's project dealing with the Numb gene in regulation of ameloblast differentiation was conducted with Dr. Anne George.

March 10, 2011 was the College of Dentistry 24th Annual Clinic and Research Day. All of our orthodontic residents and students did very well on this year's Clinic and Research Day! It was an extra-special day because the designated postgrad awards were won by ORTHODONTISTS (Phimon Atsawasuwan, Emily Williams, and Jiajun Hao) and two of the dental student awards were given to Dr. Therese Galang's students. Congratulations to everybody! Hurrah!

Winning smiles
From left to right: Phimon Atsawasuwan, Emily Williams, Jianjun Hao

FIRST PLACE , POSTGRAD BASIC SCIENCE AWARD
Phimon Atsawasuwan (middle)
“Ameloblastic Affects Cranial Suture Closure by Regulating MSX2 Expression”

FIRST PLACE , POSTGRAD CLINICAL AWARD
Emily Williams (middle)
“Presurgical Nasoalveolar Molding in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate; Evaluation of Nasal Outcomes”

SECOND PLACE, POSTGRAD CLINICAL AWARD
Jianjun Hao (middle)
“Accelerated Orthodontic Tooth Movement with Flapless Corticotomy in Beagle Dogs”