I read the October 2011 editorial with great interest, since I am often in the position of working with dentists in multi-disciplinary cases (Kokich VG. Who determines when orthodontic treatment…
Physical properties of root cementum: Part 22. Root resorption after the application of light and heavy extrusive orthodontic forces: A microcomputed tomography study Vanessa C. Jiménez Montenegro, Allan Jones, Peter…
When this issue reaches you, I will have concluded my first year as Editor-in-Chief of the AJO-DO . It has been an exciting, productive, and eventful year. Although I will…
As an orthodontic researcher, it behooves me to address certain omissions of fact along with the growing errors emanating from the Guest Editorial in the September 2010 issue, “In the…
Introduction The purposes of this study were (1) to discover a simple method for computing an average dental form, (2) to evaluate the validity of the new computing method, and…
This article reports the successful treatment of a patient with the unusual occurrence of bilateral and multiple dentigerous cysts of the premolars. One impacted mandibular premolar was moved by traction…
Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate the primary stability and the histomorphometric measurements of self-drilling and self-tapping orthodontic microimplants and the correlations between factors related to host,…
During orthodontic treatment with miniscrews, complications such as aphthous ulceration, soft-tissue coverage of the miniscrew head, soft-tissue inflammation, infection, and peri-implantitis can occur. Good hygiene can prevent inflammation by infection but…
A 19-year-old woman with skeletal Class III malocclusion, paranasal depression, and a low mandibular plane angle was treated with orthodontics and orthognathic surgery. Dental decompensation and protraction of maxillary right…
Four relatively new technologies are now key in orthodontic specialty laboratories: digital photography, laser welding, computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing, and intraoral scanners. The purposes of this article are to briefly describe…
