No way out
Christie is your tennis partner’s daughter and will soon be married. She came to see you about 20 months ago with a crowded Class I malocclusion, which she wanted corrected…
Author’s response
We are grateful to Dr Perinetti for his interest and thoughtful comments in reference to our article and are delighted that he credits us for having implemented “elegant statistical models”…
Cervical vertebral maturation: Is that all?
Recently, I read the article entitled “Evaluating the agreement of skeletal age assessment based on hand-wrist and cervical vertebrae radiography” in the December issue (Beit P, Peltomäki T, Schätzle M,…
Orthodontic treatment combined with tooth transplantation for an adult patient with a missing mandibular first molar: Long-term follow-up
Diagnosis and etiology The patient was a Japanese woman, age 29 years 8 months, with chief complaints of maxillary protrusion and absence of the mandibular left first molar, which had…
Initial orthodontic alignment effectiveness with self-ligating and conventio nal appliances: A network meta-analysis in practice
Material and methods A potentially important factor influencing the effectiveness of initial orthodontic alignment is the bracket system and, specifically, the mode of archwire ligation. The 2 main bracket systems…
Banner year for research studies in the AJO-DO
This month, the Journal honors the authors of 4 award-winning articles published in 2013. You can read about these awards—the Dewel, Watson, Turpin, and CDABO awards—in the Journal , on…
Long-term stability of implant-anchored orthodontics in an adult patient with a Class II Division 2 malocclusion and a unilateral molar scissors-bite
This article reports the successful treatment using miniscrew anchorage of an adult patient with a severe deep overbite and a unilateral scissors-bite. A 23-year-old woman had chief complaints of maxillary…
Orthodontic treatment in a periodontal patient with pathologic migration of anterior teeth
Diagnosis and etiology A man (age, 22 years 6 months) came to the orthodontic office of our hospital in Chendu, China. His chief complaints were displaced maxillary and mandibular anterior…
Effects of mechanical stress and growth on the velocity of tooth movement
Introduction In this study, we investigated the effects of the magnitudes of applied stress and growth status on the speed of tooth movement. Methods Eighty-two maxillary canines in 41 subjects…
Variables affecting orthodontic tooth movement with clear aligners
Introduction In this study, we examined the impacts of age, sex, root length, bone levels, and bone quality on orthodontic tooth movement. Methods Clear aligners were programmed to move 1…
