Dr. Kirsten Karkow is a East Saint Louis, Illinois based Orthodontics. Active license number of Dr. Kirsten Karkow is 021.003072 for Orthodontics in Illinois. Her current practice location is 2608 State St, East Saint Louis. Patients can reach her at 618-857-2300. Dr. Kirsten Karkow is DDS, MS in Orthodontics and her NPI number (Unique professional ID assigned by NPPES) is 1144672254.
Dr. Kirsten Karkow major responsibilities include the diagnosis, prevention, interception and treatment of all forms of malocclusion of the teeth and associated alterations in their surrounding structures; the design, application and control of functional and corrective appliances; and the guidance of the dentition and its supporting structures to attain and maintain optimum occlusal relations in physiologic and esthetic harmony among facial and cranial structures.Orthodontists are also called dentofacial orthopedics who deals with that area of dentistry concerned with the supervision, guidance and correction of the growing or mature dentofacial structures, including those conditions that require movement of teeth or correction of malrelationships and malformations of their related structures and the adjustment of relationships between and among teeth and facial bones by the application of forces and/or the stimulation and redirection of functional forces within the craniofacial complex.