"One step at a time": Analysing Young Patients' Video Diaries in an Ethnographic Tracing of Fixed Appliances. (4th August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wickström, Anette
• Is Part Of: Children & society. Volume 31:Number 3(2017:May)
• Page Start: 183
• Page End: 193
• Publication Date: 2016-08-04
• Subjects: ethnography -- fixed appliances -- orthodontics -- video diary -- young people; Children -- Care and hygiene -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Children -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; 362.70941
• DOI: 10.1111/chso.12179
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-0605

Abstract

Abstract : The present article examines children's and young people's experiences of receiving state‐financed orthodontic treatment. Using video diaries and follow‐up interviews, the aim was to explore how fixed appliances act on patients' bodies and social life. The combination of methods reveals complex experiences. The main narrative, primarily found in the interviews, presents a vision of an improved bite that patients and orthodontists share. In the video diaries, a parallel narrative of extended bodily hardship is revealed. Owing to the step‐by‐step process where appliances are gradually tightened, the young patients manage to bear the treatment. However, they cannot foresee its extension.