Maxillary position
Since the days of Edward Angle, many clinicians have accepted that Class II malocclusion is the consequence of a protruded maxilla and a retruded mandible; the late Bob Moyers was…
Orthodontics
Residents’ journal review
Alveolar bone repair Nampo T, Watahiki J, Enomoto A, Taguchi T, Ono M, Nakano H, et al. A new method for alveolar bone repair using extracted teeth for the graft material….
Author’s response
We thank Dr Mew for his letter regarding our article. The purpose of our retrospective study was to investigate the esthetic changes to the profile after headgear use in growing…
Author’s response
We appreciate the interest regarding our article. We are glad to clarify these points for the readers of the AJO-DO . The letter stated that dental development is a multifactorial…
Dental development in children with hypodontia
We read with great interest the article on dental development in children with hypodontia (Tunç ES, Bayrak S, Koyutürk AE. Dental development in children with mild-to-moderate hypodontia Am J Orthod…
Authors’ response
Orthodontics and classical Newtonian mechanics both deal with forces, but the targets to which the forces are delivered differ substantially. The specialized mechanics we use in orthodontics is called “biomechanics”…
Online only abstracts
Influence of root parallelism on the stability of extraction-site closures Kelly Chiqueto, Guilherme Janson, Carina Thaís de Almeida, Juliana Moura Storniolo, Sérgio Estelita Barros, and José Fernando Castanha Henriques. Am…
Create realistic objectives
The first step in planning orthodontic therapy is to establish treatment objectives. It is impossible to achieve the correct end result if the appropriate goals or objectives have not been…
The apple of Sir Isaac Newton
The recent article by Xu et al that examined the effectiveness of the popular straight-wire appliance system (SWA) for space closure after tooth extraction is very important. Surveys suggest that…
Adult Class II Division 1 patient with severe gummy smile treated with temporary anchorage devices
A 23-year-old Mongolian woman came for a consultation with chief complaints of protrusive lips and a gummy smile. The clinical examination showed a convex profile, a protrusive maxilla, excessively proclined…
