Case submission is now open!

All orthodontists who practice in Russia are welcome to present a case. The participation is totally free. An individual practitioner should submit one case only. It should be a non-surgical 4-premolar extraction case without an apparent facial asymmetry. The initial malocclusion could be of any type.

The records should be put together into a single PDF file comprised of the following 8 pages:

  1. The first page should contain a short overview of a case. It should include the age of the patient, the chief complaint, and the name of the orthodontist.
  2. The second page should include 3 initial facial photographs (frontal photograph without smile, frontal photograph with smile, right-side lateral photograph without smile), and 5 initial intraoral photographs (right side, frontal, left side, upper occlusal photograph and lower occlusal photograph).
  3. The third page should include the initial roentgenograms: an untraced lateral cephalometric x-ray and a panoramic x-ray.
  4. The fourth page should include the initial traced lateral cephalometric x-ray and the tracing itself. The following cephalometric measurements should be outlined: SNA, SNB, U1-SN, U1-PP, IMPA, FMA, Wits appraisal.
  5. The fifth page should include the final facial and intraoral photographs presented in the same layout as the initial photographs.
  6. The sixth page should include the final roentgenograms: an untraced lateral cephalometric x-ray and a panoramic x-ray.
  7. The seveth page should include the final traced lateral cephalometric x-ray and the tracing itself with the cephalometric measurements outlined above.
  8. The eighth page should include full-skull and regional superimpositions.

The PDF file should be submitted to mosg.ortho@outlook.com before 10 December 2025. Practitioners whose cases will be selected should add treatment sequence to the final presentation, and should be ready to present their case in English on 20 December 2025 at 7 PM, Moscow time.
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  • Dr. Danny Yakoub
    Orthodontist who graduated from the International University of Science and Technology in Damascus, Syria.

    He is currently working at several private clinics in Moscow.

    Dr. Yakoub served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthodontics at the Sechenov University in Moscow for several years.

    Realising the need for positive changes in the post-Soviet orthodontic education he became the mastermind behind Moscow Orthodontic Study Group meetings.

  • Dr. Alex Ditmarov
    Dr. Ditmarov got both his dental and orthodontic degrees in Russia. He works at Face Smile Center, a clinic specialised in orthognathic surgery.

    Dr. Ditmarov writes his orthodontic blog, OrthodonticGrammar.com. His texts have been published and mentioned in the American Journal of Orthodontics, the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, the British Dental Journal, and Kevin O'Brien's Orthodontic Blog.

    Dr. Ditmarov is a co-translator of the Russian edition of a book TMD and Orthodontics. He has also translated several other orthodontic textbooks from English to Russian.

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