Toshi’s Blog

On 24th and 25th in October, “Toshiaki Hiro’s Lingual Orthodontic Seminar” was held at the Tokyo Station Conference.
 
10 years have passed since I held the Lingual Orthodontic Course in Japan.
In 2001, it was a great success with 200 participants but I haven’t held any courses in this country since.
This is because my primary work is treating patients, not teaching other doctors.
 
However, I turned 50 years old this year, it is a half century, and I began to realize that my life is quite short.
Since I was given the 1st World Board of Lingual Orthodontics around the world at the ESLO meeting in Cannes, and I had passed the Member of Orthodontics RCSEd, the European Board of Orthodontics, and the Japan Orthodontic Board, submitting Lingual Orthodontics cases for these exams, and, also I heard that “Hiro technique’s study group” was born in Italy, I had changed my mind about teaching what I have learned to others.
With that in mind, I chose to introduce all of my treatment techniques and laboratory procedures for young orthodontists, the successors.
So I held the Lingual course in Tokyo, Japan.
 

 
I advertised in just 3 kinds of Orthodontic Journals, but fortunately, I had about 100 Orthodontic specialists, coming from all over Japan.
 
The first day, I explained the procedure of widely used Indirect Bonding Systems and its pros and cons, the most recent Hiro system laboratory procedure and its key points, showed a Clinical video of Hiro’s indirect bonding 〜 Brace off 〜 Bonding fixed lingual retainers, introduced 8 Lingual Orthodontic cases submitted for EBO, 3 lingual cases for JOB, Low teen lingual cases, and discussed the trouble cases of attendants that were sent to me before the course.
 

 
The presentations about the anchorage and the bowing effects were the most important and interesting lectures because my opinion is different from many other doctors.
 

 
The second day, only 30 limited participants took the Laboratory experience course, and they completed the most recent “Hiro’s Indirect Core” with my supervision, using special set-up models.
 
After the course, I received a lot of emails from participants that the course was excellent, which they had never taken before.
Some of them expressed that the first day alone would be worth a 500,000yen attendance fee.
 

 

 
I was so happy to meet them, and also I had great time with my staff.
 
I thank to my staff.