Where this leads
- Module 0 — Build your digital foundation and understand the AO approach.
- Module 1 Online — Develop the assessment and planning capability required before clinical implementation.
- Corresponding face-to-face programme — Apply the workflow through practical, structured learning.
- Mentored Case Pathway — After the required stages are complete, present your case for AO acceptance. Once accepted, treat your own appropriately selected and accepted case with structured AO mentorship throughout treatment.
AO is problem-based learning. The aim is not simply to complete lessons; it is to progressively build the judgement and workflow needed to treat an appropriately selected and accepted case in your own practice, with structured support through the treatment journey.
Module 0 - Getting Started
This free primer guides you through the digital assets and workflow concepts that support modern, clinician-controlled orthodontics. You will install and begin to familiarise yourself with the required tools while understanding how they support later case assessment, longitudinal review, and reflective clinical learning.
Understanding the AO learning pathway
Is Module 0 a mentored case programme?
No. Module 0 is the free digital and workflow foundation. It prepares you for the next stages of the AO pathway; it does not itself include case mentorship.
When does case mentorship begin?
Case mentorship begins after you have completed the required online and corresponding face-to-face stages and presented an appropriately selected and accepted case to AO. This case is then supported with structured AO mentorship throughout treatment.
Will I treat my own patient case?
AO is problem-based learning. The pathway is designed to prepare you to apply the framework in your own general practice, treating your own appropriately selected and accepted case while developing clinical judgement over time.
Why start with Module 0?
Module 0 gives you the shared digital foundation and workflow familiarity needed to progress safely into assessment, planning, and later case-based training.