Protraction of posterior teeth into edentulous spaces is a challenge. This report describes the treatment of a 19-year-old woman with missing mandibular first molars owing to caries. A fixed functional…
A summary of the current status of modification of jaw growth indicates the following. 1. Transverse expansion of the maxilla is easy before adolescence, requires heavy forces to create microfractures…
In the previous article, I discussed the null (H 0 ) and the alternative (H a ) hypotheses, and the z and t statistics. The next step is to calculate…
A reader sent me the following e-mail. “A few days ago, a prospective patient came into my office for an orthodontic consult. I don’t charge for an initial consult. She…
Angle, Tweed, and Moyers classified Class III malocclusions into 3 types: pseudo, dentoalveolar, and skeletal. Clinicians have been trying to identify the best timing to intercept a Class III malocclusion…
Introduction A digital analysis that is shown to be accurate will ease the demonstration of initial case complexity. To date, no literature exists on the accuracy of the digital American…
Introduction The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and patterns of tooth agenesis in subjects with Angle Class II Division 2 malocclusion compared with general orthodontic patients…
Introduction The aim of this study was to monitor the alveolar bone formation at the tension sites of teeth supporting the appliances for rapid maxillary expansion (RME) during the retention…
Introduction In this study, we aimed to evaluate and compare blood-flow changes in the pulp tissues of maxillary molars over a 6-month period after orthodontic intrusion using different magnitudes of…
Who can best take the measure of a teacher? His students—for whom I speak. I am singularly pleased and proud to have been asked to join in this tribute, since…
Orthodontics lost a true icon when Alton W. Moore passed away in Seattle on October 23, 2007. Al received his dental degree from the University of California at San Francisco…
The American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics has now published articles continuously for over 100 years and is considered the most complete record of the orthodontic literature in existence….
Sagittal split osteotomy with and without inferior border osteotomy Böckmann R, Schön P, Neuking K, Meyns J, Kessler P, Eggeler G. In vitro comparison of the sagittal split osteotomy with and…
Erratum to Combined maxillary and mandibular distraction osteogenesis in patients with hemifacial microsomia (Sant’Anna EF, Lau GWT, Marquezan M, de Souza Araújo MT, Polley JW, Figueroa AA. Am J Orthod…
Mrs Glasgow is the well-to-do owner of your town’s largest jewelry store, which has been in business for 3 generations. Complaining of temporalis pain upon awakening with episodic joint clicking,…
We congratulate Melgaço et al for their pioneering work on postexpansion changes related to condylar positions by using cone-beam computed tomography technology (Melgaço CA, Neto JC, Jurach EM, Nojima Mda…
On the 100th anniversary of this Journal , I want to reflect on our state of knowledge. Reading multiple systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and letters to the editors can easily lead…
We thank Drs Balachandran, Mishra, and Kharbanda for their interest in our article, “Immediate changes in condylar position after rapid maxillary expansion.” We are pleased to answer their queries. “If…
The progress we have made over the past 100 years has been truly significant. In 1915, Woodrow Wilson was still in his first term as president of the United States, and…
Thank you for responding to my recent guest editorial, “Challenges faced by journal editors” (Turpin DL. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2015;147:285-9). You are wise to bring attention to the…
