Our Miami office was recently renovated to reflect the latest in modern orthodontic office design and comfort, including an open-bay treatment area with family seating and big screen HDTVs playing the latest movies. Adjacent to the reception area, we have an iPad area and a game room with X-Box 360 and Playstation 4 connected to big screen HDTVs.
At Orthodontics Only in Miami, Dr. Sanders performs procedures that many other orthodontists would refer to an oral surgeon or periodontist. Such procedures include laser soft tissue surgery, radio surgery, and in-office placement of temporary anchorage devices (TADs). Feel free to ask and we will be happy to show before and after photos of these and other orthodontic procedures.
Each member of our Dream Team is fully committed to providing welcoming hospitality and personalized service that will make you feel like you have found a friendly oasis in Miami, Florida. Many patients tell us they feel like they are on vacation when they step into our office. Its a special place that can take you away from the stress of daily life in Miami. If you would like to experience excellent customer service, please feel free to call our office in Miami at (305) 598-3384.
Our office uses multiple social media outlets to actively stay in touch with our patients. We also have monthly contests exclusively for our patients and we give away a variety of prices each month. If you would like to see the personal side of our practice, please feel free to connect with us onFacebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and YouTube.
More than 30 years ago, we made a promise to our patients and the community that we would always put our patients first. Today, we continue to carry out our promise by providing the absolute best orthodontic care possible at an extremely fair fee. We have over 30,000 happy patients and there rave reviews can be found on many different sites on the web includingGoogle+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, CitySearch, InsiderPages, DoctorOogle, Kudzu, Angies List, Judys Book and more.
Dr. Derek Sanders was born and raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan as the youngest of five children. He attended college at Michigan State University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. Dr. Sanders then received his Doctorate in Dental Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in the top of his class. While in dental school, Dr. Sanders enrolled in a dual degree program and also earned a Master of Business Administration with a focus in health care management.
Throughout his career, Dr. Sanders has been the recipient of many distinctive awards and was one of a few select students inducted into the National Dental Honor Society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon. Following his dental training, Dr. Sanders practiced as a restorative dentist in Philadelphia, PA. His passion for continuing learning and interest in orthodontics led him to the University of Connecticut, where he was the chief resident and earned a postdoctoral Certificate in Orthodontics and a Master of Dental Science.
Dr. Sanders is a Board Certified Orthodontist. He is among a very small group of orthodontists in the world to earn this additional degree of recognized excellence and is the youngest orthodontist in Miami to successfully pass the clinical orthodontic board exam. Dr. Sanders is active in the dental community and is a member of:
Dr. Sanders is a highly skilled clinician who is loved for his warm personality and kind heart. He has lectured nationally and internationally on various topics in orthodontics and has several original articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Sanders spends countless hours in continuing education and is dedicated to providing the best orthodontic care for his patients. He completed a two-year advanced course in functional occlusion from the Roth-Williams Center for Advanced Orthodontic Education and is an Alumnus of the prestigious Pankey Institute in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Dr. Sanders lives in Miami and thoroughly enjoys being a contributing member of the community. He enjoys golf, tennis, skiing, traveling and spending time with his daughters. For years, Dr. Sanders has been a die-hard UM Hurricane and Miami Heat fan.
Dr. Giselle Cabrera is a South Florida native, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her interest in dentistry began at a young age, however it wasnt until her freshman year of college that she truly embraced her passion for orthodontics and decided to pursue orthodontics as a lifelong career. Dr. G worked as an orthodontic assistant while completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Miami (GO CANES)!
After completing dental school Dr. G moved to New York City and completed two years of a general practice residency, serving as chief resident with a concentration in orthodontics. During that time, she published a case report on treating a patient with Cherubism in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Dr. G returned to BronxCare Health System, after one year in private practice, in order to complete a three year Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics residency program. She served as chief resident in her final year as well as a resident champion for two years representing her program at national conferences. While at BronxCare, she researched and presented prevalence and treatment options for ectopically erupted first molars.
In her spare time, Dr. G enjoys running half marathons, and attending spinning and yoga classes. She loves to travel, learn about different cultures, try new restaurants, and read romantic comedies. Shes excited to return back home to spend time with family and friends, and join the Orthodontics Only team!
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Dr. Richard Rothstein grew up in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of New York City. His mother taught scienceinthe New York school system and his father, a scrupulously honest business man, was a store owner, landlord, and stock broker. As most New Yorkers, Richard was involved in sportsdespite his moderate size, he played mucho basketball and in college, was selected for the Intramural all-star teamonly 10 individuals from over 10,000 in the intramural system were selected. He was also a die-hard Yankee fan! As a young man he became a water ski instructor at a camp in upstate New York, teaching the children, counselors and owners how to do all the fancy things one can do on skisski backwards and sideways, jump, slalom, rotate 360 degrees, etc. He invented a technique where he reconfigured skis so that young, small children could experience the thrill of safely walking on water.
Dr. Rothstein always had a love for all things outdoors. His parents raised him to respect all living things. As a result of that socialization, throughout his life, hes had an extreme sensitivity toward the other things with which we share the planet as well as the wild areas within which they live. For the longest time hes been an advocate for protecting animals and conserving the environment. As a logical extension of his love of the natural world, he took up photography at a very early age. (Yeah, he started with a Brownie). As his photographic proficiency grew, his focus was such that he specialized in scenic and wildlife images. He has won numerous contests, been published in books and magazines and his work has appeared in galleries. Among his more recent accomplishments was winning the Miami Herald Travel Photo Contest where the prize was a safari to Africa. His most prestigious achievement occurred recently where he was selected as a Highly Honored Winner in the Natures Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Photo Contest. His photo was selected from over 20,000 entrties and will be on display in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. from April through September, 2011.
Dr. Rothsteins educational background included New York University (Bachelor of Science degree), the University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Dental Medicine degree) and Fairleigh Dickinson University (Master of Science in Dentistry (Orthodontics)). He spent two years in the United States Air Force as a Captain during the Vietnam War. He practiced for a short time in New York and Ohio before finally settling in Florida.
The four years of college Dr. Rothstein spent at New York University were in the 1960s; the campus was in Greenwich Village, the home and origin of the Hippie movement. At that time, Dr. Rothstein embraced that subculture (without the drugs) for its independent thinking, peace movement, environmental preservation, music, and especially the principle of helping others. Its at that time that the belief of do unto others as you would have others do unto you became a base tenant of his philosophy of life. He carried the importance of that into the way he managed Orthodontics Only and throughout his life.
Dr. Rothstein has been doing Orthodontics since 1973, setting up his own practice in 1985,which he called Orthodontics Only. True to his beliefs, his practice was based upon the concept of doing quality orthodontics in return for a reasonable and affordable fee. He has treated thousands of patients, many of which were third generation patients. He always looked upon his patients as part of his extended family and as such, treated them with respect and kinship. To this day he is still in touch with many of them.
Dr. Rothstein is now in retirement, living part time in Alaska and part time in Florida (and still doing wildlife photography). He greatly misses the patients and staff of Orthodontics Only but hes incredibly grateful to have been able to turn his practice over to Dr. Derek Sanders. Dr. Sanders is an exceptional individual and wonderful Orthodontist. He truly exemplifies the human part of human being, being sensitive and empathetiche thinks about patients the way Dr. Rothstein always did. Hes extremely smart and up to date on the latest orthodontic techniques and philosophies and there could not have been a better person to continue Orthodontics Only. Thank you Dr. Sanders for being who you are and for making Orthodontics Only what it is today.