[Constraints of means, technics and results in orthodontics?]

Like all health professionals, Orthodontic Physicians, are constantly seeking or are urged to obtain the best therapeutic results possible by their professional bodies such as Universities, Learned societies, Ordre des Medecins and Professional Associations and by extra-professional bodies such as the Social Security, the Law, the Media and the general Public. The divergence between technical progress and patient care resources is currently creating tension in all western countries; thereby producing difficulties in conditions of practice.