06/28/2026
For my 5000 orthodontic friends:
Just bought my copy of the 4th edition of Dr. OP Kharbanda’s orthodontic text book Diagnosis and Management of Malocclusion and Dentofacial Deformities This is an excellent and very comprehensive book (1800 pages, spread over 106 chapters!) covering every aspect of orthodontics including the latest in digital technologies, 3D modeling and AI. There are contributions from 87 distinguished experts in the field from around the world!.
This book has been a labor of love for Dr. OP Kharbanda driven by a selfless desire to promote the highest level of evidence based education. I know Dr. Kharbanda has spent long nights, whole weekends and many thousands of hours of labour to bring this book to fruition. This may well be the crowning glory of his very long and illustrious career as an educator!
I would recommend this book should be a standard reference book of orthodontics for all students as well as practicing orthodontists of all levels of experience. I have already learned innumerable things from it in the short period of time I have had it!
I have contributed a chapter on Principles of biomechanics and appliance design. The chapter for this current edition has been extensively updated over the last edition. Here are some examples from my chapter including cases treated with my:
K-SIR archwire
K-Loop molar distalizer
K-9 spring
Happy reading!
