Our Vision, Mission, Values and Evolution
Our VisionĀ
We empower dentists in providing outstanding orthodontic care. We also enable change in our industry by leading the way for a more inclusive and accessible orthodontic education. Together, we strive to make a positive impact in the world.
Our Mission
Increase: Confidence (Knowledge), Competence (Skill) and Case acceptance (Real world application) for dentists practicing digital orthodontics, Ā particularly clear aligner treatments in their dental practices.
Improve: Orthodontic Patient outcomes and in association improving the dentistās satisfaction of own career;
Inspire: Lead the industry in Online education models;
Innovate: Work with Digital innovations and Automations for prompt and fast responses in our operations;
Inclusivity: Empower women in dentistry, women with children and dentists in remote areas by providing accessible and flexible educational programs.
Our Values are defined by:
Keeping our learners at the heart of everything we do
Our commitment to results
Being agile and driven by continual feedback
Having empathy and being socially responsible
Including all, while supporting diversity
Supporting a dynamic and innovative team
Enabling an ethical leadership
Our EvolutionĀ
BOSS (aka The Digital Orthodontic College), is an Australian- and UK-accredited training organisation that aims to provide general dentists and dental specialists with comprehensive & modern orthodontic courses, that lead a beginner from introductory to advanced orthodontic knowledge and skills; for the professional and competent delivery of digital orthodontic treatment in their dental practices. Our courses contain a combination of accredited programs and short courses that complement the package. Each course is either stand alone or can dovetail into other services.
Our courses include:
Accredited diploma programs: These aim to provide comprehensive and advanced skills, knowledge and support in the new and emerging area of digital orthodontics to dentists and dental specialists. The below programs are only available to actively practicing dentists or dental specialists.
- 10905NAT Graduate Diploma of Digital Orthodontic Treatments (AU), accredited by ASQA, Australia
- Diploma in Digital Orthodontics (UK), accredited by EduQual UK.
Coaching and mentoring support, during the courses and after, for dentists treating patients with digital orthodontic appliances, with a range of free and paid subscription offerings.
Short CPD courses and workshops (online or face-to-face), to provide initial, ongoing or refresher training to dentists and dental staff to increase their skills and knowledge in the area of clear aligner as well as digital orthodontic treatments.
Our beginnings…The Start of the Boss Story in 2015
This is the start of story of me wanting to make a change….
“This is a story of a simple woman, dentist and an orthodontist, and now a dentapreuner(!!not sure what it means) who was caught up in a web of frustration and decided to BREAK FREE! I graduated from Dentistry in 2001 and Orthodontics 2013. I was a general dentist for 9 years. Full of passion and always wanting to learn I dived into lots of seminars and courses. When it came to Orthodontics, I did every course/seminar/residency including all major ones that exist today. I walked out always excited and ready to start – plan – help my patients. I had all these gurus showing me how easy it is and how much more $$$ you could make and I could do it better than my local specialist!
Personally, the $$$ never interested me – otherwise I would be driving a famous red sports car or dressing designer head to toe or eating at lavish places and flying first class. I would rather donate money to UNICEF but that’s just me. I just did orthodontics as a dentist for the PASSION and its what I enjoyed! I could not afford to do a university degree and this was the easier solution at the time.
The future looked bright. I felt I had enough training to do orthodontics. The only thing I didn’t touch were surgical cases and impacted canines. As with everything I do, I launched into orthodontic treatments full of passion. The more I did, the more I realised it actually wasn’t that easy. I had to train my staff, source out labs, learn what to do when things started to go wrong (and they definitely did – lets get real and honest here!). I always told my patients that I was just a dentist but felt competent to do their treatment well. My patients put their trust in me.
After several years, I started to see my own failures and inefficiencies. The gurus were either not around or too busy to sit down with me and help me and wanted more $$$. RINGS A BELL? I tried networking with multiple dental colleagues who did similar courses to improve – I was going around in circles – but then I decided to BREAK FREE and contact my local orthodontist. These gurus told me how unfriendly these local orthodontist are so I didn’t know what to expect.
I WAS FORTUNATE FOR MY LOCAL ORTHODONTIST TO GIVE ME HIS TIME. Eventually he employed me and I only did orthodontics as a general dentist under his supervision. A WHOLE NEW MEANING came about to my ORTHODONTICS practice as a general dentist. MOST OF ALL – the personal one-on-one case-based approach helped me really understand the COMPLEXITIES OF HUMAN VARIATIONS AND OUR TREATMENTS. I became a learner again and decided to specialise in Orthodontics knowing I would sacrifice my flourishing dental career (I was already starting a path toward LVI dentistry!). It was my only way to learn it at the level I wanted.
TODAY AS AN ORTHODONTIST, I want to help my dear friends whose stories are similar to mine, who approach me with their problems and whose patients put their ABSOLUTE TRUST in them everyday. I also have an ulterior motive ā I want to never stop learning, doing research, reading journals and becoming a better clinician everyday. The only way to learn Orthodontics outside of specialist degree is by continual lectures, seminars and case-based discussion/sessions from starting of a case to finish. It is how I learnt it in my Orthodontics degree. We spent days/weeks diagnosing a case to its fullest, reading all relevant literature about stability, mechanics, risk management.
I have now started BOSS ā Best Orthodontics Seminars & Sessions in Sydney, Australia. BOSS endeavours to create that positive environment I experienced doing my orthodontics degree. BOSS is about evidence-based orthodontics, its about giving your patients the BEST you can. BOSS is about continual support and growth for dentists and orthodontists. Orthodontist are on a path of continual learning too and it never stops! $$$ will follow the most efficient and effective dental practitioners even without trying (- I hope so!). YES it will be exciting and lots of fun! Yes it will be ultra modern and focussed on the future of digital orthodontics! Yes it will stay on top of current & upcoming research! Yes it will be supportive in everyday practice in every part of your practice! Most exciting of all ā You get to make friends that support each other! BOSS is about actual coming together, staying together and working together.”
– Dr Vandana Katyal, Orthodontist (facebook post in 2015)
