Dr. Richard Sims Tompkins is a Columbia, South Carolina based Orthodontics. Active license number of Dr. Richard Sims Tompkins is 2835 for Orthodontics in South Carolina. His current practice location is 5250 Clemson Ave, Columbia. Patients can reach him at 803-738-9715 or can fax him at 803-738-9717. Dr. Richard Sims Tompkins is DMD in Orthodontics and his NPI number (Unique professional ID assigned by NPPES) is 1912015207.
Dr. Richard Sims Tompkins 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.