Introduction The selection of appropriate outcomes is a fundamental part of the design of clinical trials. Orthodontic treatment aims to improve a person’s dentofacial appearance, and research outcomes should therefore…
Introduction The objective of this study was to determine the degree of agreement between hand-wrist radiography and cervical vertebral maturation analysis in patients diagnosed with short stature. Methods A cross-sectional study…
Introduction A quantitative assessment of maxillary first molar distalization with and without the maxillary second molar (M2) was carried out. Methods Fifty-six cervical headgear patients undergoing fixed appliance orthodontic treatment…
Introduction The aim of this study was to explore the shape differences in maxillary first molars with orthographic measurements using 3-dimensional virtual models to assess whether there is variability in…
Posttreatment stability after treatment with a self-ligating system Basciftci FA, Akin M, Ileri Z, Bayram S. Long-term stability of dentoalveolar, skeletal, and soft tissue changes after non-extraction treatment with a…
Your brother’s daughter Elizabeth is now ready for orthodontic treatment. Although the family lives several hours away, you have been the trusted authority in dental health care since you graduated…
The use of elastics in dentistry is not a new development. One of the earliest applications of elastics in dentistry was to extract teeth in patients with bleeding disorders (eg,…
The editorial in the June issue of the AJO-DO provided ample food for thought. The advent of the “digital age” has quite literally revolutionized the accessibility of information available at…
This case report describes the successful orthodontic tooth movement through the maxillary sinus in an adult patient. A 41-year-old Asian woman had severe lip protrusion and multiple missing posterior teeth….
It is a great idea to develop the AJO-DO Resource Center (Turpin DL, Behrents RG, Abdelkarim AA. Proposed AJO-DO Resource Center on cone-beam computed tomography imaging. Am J Orthod Dentofacial…
This case report describes the multidisciplinary treatment of a male with a dilacerated maxillary left central incisor and transposition of the ipsilateral maxillary canine and lateral incisor. The initial treatment…
A 40-year-old black woman, with pretorqued, preangulated appliances on the maxillary teeth, transferred with chief concerns of missing teeth and her orthodontic progress. She had bialveolar protrusion and edentulous areas…
Donald Hugh Enlow When Don Enlow arrived in Cleveland in 1977 to head the orthodontic department at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), he began a new chapter in his lifelong…
Introduction Because of the close anatomic proximity of the maxillary permanent canine and first premolar, we investigated the relationship between their preeruptive positional changes in this retrospective study. Methods Sixty-three…
Dr Gerald Vale Dr Gerald Vale, orthodontist and forensic dentistry expert, passed away on July 19, 2013, at the age of 87. He graduated from dental school at New York…
The cohort study is the closest design to a clinical trial, since exposed and unexposed patients are followed prospectively, and the outcome is recorded sometime in the future. In cohort…
Introduction Midpalatal suture expansion could induce osteogenesis to correct maxillary insufficiency; cartilage formation could also be induced, and lower-magnitude forces might generate a preferable response pattern. In this study, we…
Introduction In this study, we aimed to measure the inclination of teeth on dental casts by a manual technique with the tooth inclination protractor (TIP; MBI, Newport, United Kingdom) and…
A colleague wrote: It has become routine in many orthodontic offices for a child who has come in for a new patient examination to have a panoramic x-ray taken before…
Introduction Our objective was to determine whether dental esthetics have any influence on finding a new job. Methods Ten patients with orthodontic treatment needs for various types of malocclusions were…
