Consumer alert on the use of elastics as “gap bands”
The use of elastics in dentistry is not a new development. One of the earliest applications of elastics in dentistry was to extract teeth in patients with bleeding disorders (eg,…
Laying the foundation for a resource center
The editorial in the June issue of the AJO-DO provided ample food for thought. The advent of the “digital age” has quite literally revolutionized the accessibility of information available at…
Orthodontic tooth movement through the maxillary sinus in an adult with multiple missing teeth
This case report describes the successful orthodontic tooth movement through the maxillary sinus in an adult patient. A 41-year-old Asian woman had severe lip protrusion and multiple missing posterior teeth….
AJO-DOResource Center
It is a great idea to develop the AJO-DO Resource Center (Turpin DL, Behrents RG, Abdelkarim AA. Proposed AJO-DO Resource Center on cone-beam computed tomography imaging. Am J Orthod Dentofacial…
Concomitant dilaceration, transposition, and intraosseous migration: Report of a patient treated with maxillary canine-central incisor substitution
This case report describes the multidisciplinary treatment of a male with a dilacerated maxillary left central incisor and transposition of the ipsilateral maxillary canine and lateral incisor. The initial treatment…
Retreatment of a transfer patient with bialveolar protrusion with mini bone-plate anchorage
A 40-year-old black woman, with pretorqued, preangulated appliances on the maxillary teeth, transferred with chief concerns of missing teeth and her orthodontic progress. She had bialveolar protrusion and edentulous areas…
Donald Hugh Enlow, 1927-2014
Donald Hugh Enlow When Don Enlow arrived in Cleveland in 1977 to head the orthodontic department at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), he began a new chapter in his lifelong…
Preeruptive changes in maxillary canine and first premolar inclinations: A retrospective study on panoramic radiographs
Introduction Because of the close anatomic proximity of the maxillary permanent canine and first premolar, we investigated the relationship between their preeruptive positional changes in this retrospective study. Methods Sixty-three…
Gerald Vale, 1926-2013
Dr Gerald Vale Dr Gerald Vale, orthodontist and forensic dentistry expert, passed away on July 19, 2013, at the age of 87. He graduated from dental school at New York…
Cohort studies: Part 1
The cohort study is the closest design to a clinical trial, since exposed and unexposed patients are followed prospectively, and the outcome is recorded sometime in the future. In cohort…
