Biography
Biography: Katherine Kula
Abstract
Music is an elective opportunity in more than 90% of US secondary schools. Many parents ask dentists whether their
children should play certain wind instruments or whether orthodontics will affect their playing of these instruments. The
purpose of this talk is to review what is known about the relationship of the dentition, airways and soft tissue movements with
wind instrument performance. Clinicians will be given useful information that they can present to parents and their children
based on a review of the literature and the results of a clinical study involving university trumpet students who consented
to a survey, an evaluation of their trumpet performance, a 3D CBCT (teeth, bone and airways) and 3D stereogrammatic
photographs.