Introduction Our objective was to quantitatively assess and compare the bisphenol A (BPA) released from an orthodontic adhesive using a light-emitting diode device (LED) or a halogen light-curing unit (HLC)…
Effects of surface preparation on shear bond strength Elnafar AA, Alam MK, Hasan R. The impact of surface preparation on shear bond strength of metallic orthodontic brackets bonded with a…
Ms Samson returns to your office to discuss—again—the orthodontic options to address her maxillary anterior crowding. You gave her a diagnosis and several treatment options about a year ago, but…
I was rather taken aback to read an article in the September 2014 issue that used cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) to measure airway changes in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea….
With interest, I read about the study by Williams et al in the February 2014 issue of the AJO-DO . I congratulate and appreciate the authors of this study for their efforts…
We wish to thank Dr Yongwen Guo for his interest and thoughtful review of our article in the AJO-DO . The exposures or interventions we used in our study were…
We thank Dr Antosz for his interest in our article, “Three-dimensional upper-airway changes with maxillomandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnea treatment.” We hope we can clarify the issues for him….
Introduction The aim of this study was to assess the bone morphology of teeth mesialized into the grafted region in patients with unilateral alveolar cleft. Methods The sample comprised 30…
We thank Drs Yan, Wang, and Zhou for their interest in our study (Yang X, Li C, Bai D, Su N, Chen T, Xu Y, Xianglong H. Treatment effectiveness of Fränkel…
The professional distinction of “surgeon-dentist,” created in France in the 18th century, stimulated dentistry’s early advance as a learned profession. By 1841, Pierre-Joachim Lefoulon coined the term “orthodontosie,” which was…
