The Orthodontic Specialist Academy

2025: A Year That Changed How We Care

As 2025 comes to an end, I feel an overwhelming sense of pride and gratitude.

This year has truly changed how we care — at The Orthodontic Specialist and at The Orthodontic Specialist Academy. Not just in what we do, but why we do it.

Day after day in clinic, we have seen the power of recognising problems early. The small signs that are so easy to miss. When growth, function, breathing, and development are guided at the right time, we can prevent much bigger challenges later on. This belief in early, preventative orthodontics has shaped everything we do.

What makes me most proud is not the growth itself, but the people behind it. An exceptional team who show up with care, integrity, and commitment for every patient. Colleagues and clinicians through our Academy who are choosing to think differently — putting prevention, health, and long-term outcomes first.

None of this happens alone. It happens when values align, when standards remain high, and when the focus stays firmly on doing what is right.

As we look ahead to 2026, I am more excited than ever. We will continue to educate, to evolve, and to raise the standard of early orthodontic care.

This is the final opportunity to enrol for our 2026 Academy courses.
For full details, please contact:
[email protected]

Thank you to my incredible team, our patients, our Academy delegates, and our wider community.
2025 has been a year that changed how we care — and this is only the beginning.

Shaping the Future of Orthodontics—One Community at a Time

Every time I listen to the latest feedback from our Cohort 3 graduates, I am reminded why we built this Academy.
What begins as a one-year diploma in early intervention becomes something far deeper: a space where clinicians grow, connect, and rediscover their purpose.

The feedback we receive is not just about clinical excellence or transformative treatment planning. It speaks of lives changed, confidence rebuilt, and a community that supports each other long after the course ends.

At the Orthodontic Specialist Academy, we are not simply teaching how to treat children.
We are shaping a movement in early, airway-focused orthodontics.
We are creating belonging.
We are building a family of clinicians who want to make a meaningful difference.

Cohort 3 have once again shown what becomes possible when passion, knowledge, and community come together.
To every graduate: thank you for trusting us and for helping us grow this mission.

Cohort 4 (January 2026) is not yet full.
If you feel called to deepen your clinical clarity, elevate your confidence, and join a community that genuinely cares—now is the time.

To enquire or secure your place, please contact:
[email protected]

🚀 A Life-Changing Journey in Early Interceptive Orthodontics

Hearing feedback like Catherine’s is exactly why we do what we do.
As a member of Cohort 2 of our one-year Diploma in Early Interceptive Orthodontics, she shared that the course has been truly transformational for her clinical thinking and her patients’ long-term wellbeing.

What resonated most is how the curriculum aligns with the principles taught at the Kois Center in Seattle with John Kois, bringing together:Like says:
✅ Airway
✅ Function
✅ Biomechanics
✅ Periodontics
✅ Dento-facial development

Because real orthodontics isn’t just about straightening teeth.
It’s about understanding the whole individual — their breathing, their craniofacial and dento-facial growth, their posture, and their function.
Everything is connected.

This is the heart of our philosophy — a facially and airway-driven approach that elevates clinicians beyond tooth alignment to true, health-centred care.

To Catherine — thank you for your passion, commitment, and for sharing how deeply this journey has shaped your practice.
We’re honoured to witness our students grow into clinicians who change lives every day.

Here’s to shaping the future of orthodontics — one airway at a time. 🌱

✨ From Adult Breakdown → Early Interception ✨

This is feedback from Catherine – Cohort 2 of our Diploma in Early Interceptive Orthodontics.

Catherine first trained with Dr John Kois , where she learned to understand functional occlusion — particularly how to identify the underlying causes behind breakdown and destruction in adults.

When she joined our Diploma, she shared how it opened a new perspective:
She began recognising the earliest signs of these same destructive patterns in children — long before they become complex to manage.

A key takeaway for her was learning to approach care:

✅ Facially-driven
✅ Airway-driven
✅ Outside-in, rather than teeth-first

This mindset shift — looking at breathing, facial growth, and whole-body function before focusing on the teeth — is one of the core pillars of our Diploma programme.

I have personally learned tremendously from Dr John Kois and his philosophy, and it’s a privilege to now blend these foundations with airway-centred early intervention so we can support children much earlier in life.

Thank you, Catherine, for allowing us to share your reflections and for being part of Cohort 2.
Your journey reflects what this Diploma aims to achieve:
➡️ Understand early, guide wisely, and protect lifelong health.