If you're looking to get braces for yourself, or your child, and you have the opportunity/fortune/luck to live in the area where Dr Kravitz practices. You have two things to do. Run, don't walk, to Loudoun 1 and get an assessment, and 2, buy lottery tickets, because the fates and lady luck are smiling upon you in ways that defy statistics, and the odds are in your favor. I have a giant melon that took 7 years of orthodontics to fix back in the dark ages known as the 80's. My wife has a fairly narrow head that had minimal issues with orthodontics for two years. Our kids have the worst of both worlds, and the kind of mouths that require a doctorate in geometry to figure out, and have given PTSD to at least 3 orthodntists who are now "relaxing" in a sleeveless tux at Shady Grove Institute, where they rock back and forth saying "those teeth..... unnatural.....Those teeth..... Unatural..."
But even if you don't have a mix of genetics that would cause a SciFi writer to cry, you will not find a better practitioner of the Orthodontic arts than Dr. Kravitz. For many, many reasons. He has taken advanced training beyond his dental degree. You can be an orthodontist just by taking a few classes and then hanging out your shingle (such as my case of 7 years of being a "brace face") Dr. Kravitz actually got a masters in this. He's on the cutting edge of the medical side of this field. You wouldn't think that there are a number of scientific journals that are dedicated to orthodontics. And you'd be wrong. Just like there are 9 journals that cover structural geology, there are well more than 9 for orthodontics. And, he's read them all, he's taken short-courses in new techniques, and completely unbelievably, he's actually PUBLISHED in several of these. You will be very hard pressed to find someone who is a practicing medical provider who is not in academia publishing in anything. I am a researcher for the government. My job is to publish papers of my work. He does this after working on abstract art in someone's mouth for 10 hours a day. Oh, and did I mention he's considered a miracle to the special needs parents in Northern Virginia? Trying to find a provider who's also trained in working with special needs kids is a nightmare, but Dr. Kravitz's name pops up universally in the parent groups when someone asks for a reference. This has been the way for at least 10 years. He is the first provider I watched without anxiety as he led my kid to the chair and was able to do an examination without me hovering over and her starting to panic. There are many, many other things he does as a member of the community, but I don't have time to write a second dissertation on this, and you're probably only concerned with technical skills, and affordability. There are hundreds of licensed orthodontists in the area who have passed their licensing exams. He has passed on so many other aspects of being a good provider and more importantly a great human being, I wouldn't consider recommending anyone else. There is no need. read more