I can absolutely recommend Helen McClean. My teeth were shocking and the school dentist said I would need braces years in advance. My first orthodontist used to have waiting times of up to a 2 hrs!!!! He was also rude and explained his treatement as "4 teeth out and then braces for 1.5 years". My mum got jack of the waiting and rudeness and changed to Helen just before I was due to start treatment. She was AMAZING. Explained everything, generally directly to me while mum listened in, rarely more than a 5 minute wait, radically different treatment plan too.
She told us upfront that my teeth would, to some point, return to their orginal state and that her goal was to get all my molars meeting and everything straight, than anything else was a bonus. 10 years after ending treatment this is exactly how they were. I went to see a fancy international lecturing orthodontic surgeon in sydney as I was considering trying to fix the front again. He asked who had done my original treatment and what they did. He said I had the absolute best of modern treatment and then proceed to go on and on about how amazing Helen McLean was. I was frankly amazed that the high flying sydney (male) orthodontist knew of and was impressed by my Adelaide (female) orthodontist..... does that say more about me or him? He said he didn't want to treat me (only option jaw surgery that would also be back how it was in 5 yrs) but to go back to Helen next I was in Adelaide and ask her. I went to see her and she a) remembered my case in detail and b) did the most thor! ough exam I have ever had c) said this is exactly what I hoped for d) explained all the reasons in detail for not doing various treatments had been sugestted to me and I left feeling great. cheers >Jo At 23:00 +1000 26/5/04, Sheena Johnson wrote: >Hi > >this is not mid related, but I am stuck, and was wondering if any of the midwives in >Adelaide could recommend an orthodontist for my daughter? I am having trouble finding >one that comes recommended, don't really know enough people over there. Could you >email me off list? Actually, I do have a midwifery question. Since I am starting my >grad year and am beginning to assist at births unsupervised, I was wondering how many >people on the list routinely remove the cord from around the babies neck if it is >there, and how many don't.Do you even check? What is the frequency of cutting before >the shoulders are born? > >I feel that if there is no obvious obstruction of labour and there are signs of >progress, ie restitution, the shoulders follow the head etc.�then we should probably >not bother about removing the cord, what do others think? > > >Thanks, Sheena Johnson ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jo Bourne Virtual Artists Pty Ltd -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
