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…
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…
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 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…
We successfully treated a nonsyndromic oligodontia patient with implant-anchored orthodontics and prosthetic restorations. A woman, age 18 years 11 months, had a straight profile and a skeletal Class I jaw-base…
Introduction This paper introduces a virtually planned and stereolithographically fabricated guiding system that will allow the clinician to plan carefully for the best location of the device and to achieve…
Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine how the amount of surgical insult affects the quantity and maturity of dentoalveolar bone around teeth that have been orthodontically moved….
To reduce a large amount of mandibular setback and to prevent pharyngeal airway space narrowing when correcting a severe anteroposterior skeletal discrepancy, a mandibular step osteotomy is often combined with…
Introduction The aims of this study were to assess the biologic stability of a newly designed hollow (H-type) miniscrew compared with conventional (C-type) miniscrews through histomorphometric and histologic analysis. Methods…
Commentary The opening paragraph might give the impression that I’m against shortening treatment time; well, I’m not. The patient is always best served if we can accomplish what we set…
Material and methods Articles regarding corticotomy-facilitated orthodontics or dental distraction in healthy adolescent or adult patients without craniofacial anomalies or periodontal disease were considered. Randomized controlled trials (RCT), controlled clinical…
