“Publish or perish”—Who publishes and who perishes?
In your continued attempt to remain current in your specialty, you strive to read every journal that arrives at your office. You cannot help but notice that many articles are…
We must learn to learn from each other
Congratulations on the October 2011 editorial (Kokich VG. Who determines when orthodontic treatment is complete? Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2011;140:451). I am an orthodontist; I graduated from the Universidad…
Who determines when orthodontic treatment is complete?
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…
Online only abstracts
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…
What a year!
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…
Don’t throw the scientific self-ligation baby out with the commercial bathwater
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…
Three-dimensional dental model constructed from an average dental form
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…
Patient with nonsyndromic bilateral and multiple impacted teeth and dentigerous cysts
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…
Primary stability and histomorphometric bone-implant contact of self-drilling and self-tapping orthodontic microimplants
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,…
Miniscrew covering: An alternative to prevent traumatic lesions
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…
