Introduction The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the timing of orthodontic force application on the rates of orthodontic tooth movement into surgical alveolar defects with…
Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of self-tapping and self-drilling placement techniques on the stability of miniscrews. Methods We included 70 orthodontic patients who received…
Introduction The purposes of this study were to investigate the dental arch changes after adenotonsillectomies in prepubertal children and to compare the dental arch dimensions of mouth-breathing and nasal-breathing children….
Introduction The aim of this study was to compare the virtual and manual tooth setups with digital and plaster models in extraction cases by measuring various occlusal parameters and applying…
Material and methods This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board at the University of Washington. The consecutive sample of orthodontic records was selected from the retention files…
Introduction Individuals with Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) frequently have tooth agenesis, especially in the mandible. The aims of this study were to characterize permanent tooth agenesis patterns and to determine…
Introduction The aim of this study was to assess the effect of intraoral aging on the setting status of a resin composite and a glass ionomer adhesive, relative to control…
Open and closed approach for palatally impacted canines Smailiene D, Kavaliauskiene A, Pacauskiene I, Zasciurinskiene E, Bjerklin K. Palatally impacted maxillary canines: choice of surgical-orthodontic treatment method does not influence…
I thank Dr Carlson and his colleagues for their comments on my editorial, “Let the truth be known.” I was delighted to hear that my thoughts were so evocative. The objectives…
We are fond of Dr Peter Greco’s column on ethics, which appears every month in the AJO-DO . In his December 2013 column, “Let the truth be known,” Dr Greco…
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…
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”…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
