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I have been thinking about it for a while. The wast majority of orthos happen to be males! That is very rare to see a female ortho, at least in my experience! Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong!

OMG! I've noticed that too, it's not that there aren't female orthodontists it just that its almost like a 1 in 4 or 5 ratio....
Well, mine's a male but my best friend's ortho is a female.

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At the moment, I have 2 ortho's. One's male and the other's female. The latter was the original ortho but she's in the process of retiring, so a new ortho was brought in and I guess he's trying to learn the ins and outs about the ortho office before he officially takes over.

My orthodontist is a woman..

Mine is male ... and I agree, way more males!

Mine is also male.
But I've also noticed most older dentists are males, but as the younger generations mix in more females are coming in.

surely same correlation as dentists?

My general dentist is female and my ortho is male

I don't know what the overall ratio is but I had consults with 4 orthos--two were male, two were female and I went with one of the women. (I also have a female dentist.)

My ortho is a female and a minority if that counts.

Mine's male but all the assistants are female.

My ortho and primary care dentist are both females.

I have two orthodontists - they're husband and wife.

Mine is make, but as someone else mentioned, all the assistants are female.
Interesting...

I have a male ortho and dentist. Growing up I had a male dentist and noticed that all the dentists and ortho at that practice were male, while the assistants were all female. It also seemed like all my friends went to male dentists/orthos as well. The current practice that I go to has a pretty good balance. According to their website they have 10 male and 8 female dentists/orthos.