Editor’s Summary and Q&A
Introduction In this study, we compared the pretreatment conditions, treatment characteristics, and orthodontic outcomes of 3 groups of subjects selected for the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) phase III clinical…
Editor’s response
I agree with Dr Katz that the sponsors of original research must be acknowledged with the dissemination of results. At the same time, we appreciate that commercial entities provide badly…
Appearances count when industry underwrites research
Leafing through the October 2009 issue of the AJO-DO , I recognized the apparatus and illustrations in the article, “Three-dimensional orthodontic force measurements” (Badawi HM, Toogood RW, Carey JPR, Heo…
Authors’ response
We thank Dr Murphy for his interest in our recent article, “Clinical application of accelerated osteogenic orthodontics and partially osseointegrated mini-implants for minor tooth movement,” in the September 2009 issue…
Accelerated Osteogenic Orthodontics
I was happy to see an article on surgically assisted orthodontic treatment in the September issue (Kim SH, Kook YA, Jeong DM, Lee W, Chung KR, Nelson G. Clinical application…
Your copyright and the SPARC author addendum
What does it mean to hold the copyright to a manuscript or other printed material? During a panel discussion at the University of Washington entitled, “Publishing your work in the…
Three-dimensional dental measurements: An alternative to plaster models
Introduction The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of dental measurements taken with calipers on plaster dental casts and those from computed tomography scans of the dentition…
Cephalometric and electromyographic study of patients of East African ethnicity with and without anterior open bite
Introduction A review of the literature showed that there are disturbances of muscle activity and tongue function in patients with anterior open bite (AOB). However, most studies have had white…
