Introduction The objective of this 2-arm parallel trial was to compare the survival times, failure rates, and comfort of 2 clear overlay retainers with different thicknesses (0.75 and 1.00 mm). Methods…
You are well prepared for your last consultation of the day. Your patient is an introspective philosophy professor who was referred to you by a local prosthodontist. His request is…
We thank Drs Katti and Talapaneni for the comments and observations on our article (Lee H, Nguyen A, Hong C, Hoang P, Pham J, Ting K, Biomechanical effects of maxillary…
Finite element research by Lee et al to evaluate the effects of rapid palatal expansion on the craniofacial skeleton of a patient with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and to…
I want to congratulate Greg Jorgensen on his future-focusing editorial in the January issue of the Journal (Jorgensen G. Rethinking American Board of Orthodontics certification: a paradigm shift. Am J…
The American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) appreciates Dr Jorgensen’s enthusiastic recommendations to address the challenges faced by the orthodontic specialty (Jorgensen G. Rethinking American Board of Orthodontics certification: a paradigm…
The American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) was founded in 1929 as the first dental specialty and the third specialty in all health care. Acting as the president of the American…
Approximately 1/2 of maxillary and 1/5 of mandibular multi-stranded lingual retainers fail during retention in some form, either bond failure or wire breakage. Memotain is a new CAD/CAM fabricated lingual…
We successfully treated a patient with achondroplasia with conventional orthodontic techniques. It was followed by long-term retention. The patient, a 12-year-old boy, had chief complaints of occlusal disturbance and mandibular…
Introduction Surgically assisted mandibular arch expansion is an effective treatment modality for alleviating constriction and crowding. However, only mandibular symphyseal osteotomy is recommended for mandibular arch expansion. No relevant studies…
Nonextraction camouflage treatment along with Class III elastics was used to treat a 39-year-old woman with a skeletal Class III pattern and a low mandibular plane angle and short lower…
Robert L. “Slick” Vanarsdall Jr People, People who need people, Are the luckiest people in the world. Robert L. “Slick” Vanarsdall Jr was a person who needed—and loved—people. He thrived…
In a time when orthodontists are getting away from paper charts and going digital with their patient data and imaging, practitioners need to be prepared for a potential hardware failure…
Introduction The aim of this study was to determine the effects of the leveling of the curve of Spee in subjects treated with preadjusted appliances in different skeletal vertical patterns….
We read the case report “Canine-lateral incisor transposition: controlling root resorption with a bone-anchored T-loop retraction” in the December issue. The authors used an interesting innovation for complete transposition of…
The purpose of Etiology-based dental and craniofacial diagnostics is to illustrate how the etiology of many of the problems observed clinically can be found when analyzing prenatal material. The first…
Introduction The purposes of this study were to evaluate whether unaltered elastomeric chain can continue to move teeth for 16 weeks and to relate it to the amount of force remaining…
In the article discussing the chi-square test, I used a clinical trial scenario with the objective of assessing the clinical alignment efficiency of 2 types of wires. These wires (A…
In this case report, we present the orthodontic and surgical management of an 18-year-old girl who had a severe craniofacial deformity, including maxillary prognathism, vertical maxillary excess (gummy smile), mandibular…
Maybe yes and, then again, maybe no. That’s what Kace v Liang , 472 Mass. 630 (Sup. Ct.; 2015), was all about. The learned treatise exception to the hearsay rule…
