a voice in the arena Adult Orthodontic Rehab Cases by Chad Foster, DDS, MS, editorial director, Orthotown magazine I've been involved with several different interdisciplinary dental study clubs in the past handful of years. Most have been Spear Study Clubs, but there are quite a few other excellent interdisciplinary dental study clubs out there. It is quite amazing how different dental specialists see the same case! Seeing teeth through their eyes has forced me to confront and work to improve my own defi cient, two-dimensional understandings and assumptions of how restorative dentistry and the other specialties should properly interface with my orthodontia. On the fl ip side, it has also been eye-opening to realize their misunderstandings of what orthodontics can and can't do to assist them in their restorative and rehabilitative dental needs. In almost every case that is dissected, I have been obliged to humbly play the role of both teacher and student. These many discussions with my non-orthodontist colleagues have completely shifted the way I look at adult orthodontic rehabilitation (complex interdisciplinary) cases more than any other learning activities. Rewarding results- but some hard lessons Adult rehabilitation cases have been some of the most challenging and rewarding of all the orthodontic cases that I treat. For an example I'm sharing the records of a patient I recently fi nished (Figs. 1 and 2). Both he and his general dentist informed me that no one had wanted to accept his case because of its complexity. A corporate dental offi ce had even suggested the only option was for him to consider extracting 8 DECEMBER 2021 // orthotown.com Fig. 1 Fig. 2http://www.orthotown.com