When less might be more
Your treatment of Susan, your daughter’s 13-year-old classmate, finished beautifully. You had predicted the 2 mm diastemata that remains distal to the undersized maxillary lateral incisors, so the family was…
Orthodontics
You might miss something obvious
One of my best referring general dentists once asked me to evaluate his 34-year-old receptionist. She did not have a complicated malocclusion, just a few malaligned teeth and a slightly…
Author’s response
Thank you for your letter and your interest in our article. The first question raised, regarding the amount of crowding present before treatment, might not add a significant value to…
Question about relapse of corrected deepbites
I would like to congratulate Dr Derek Pollard et al for their article in the April 2012 issue (Pollard D, Akyalcin S, Wiltshire WA, Rody WJ Jr. Relapse of orthodontically corrected…
Online only abstract
Unilateral maxillary molar distalization with zygoma-gear appliance Dogan Kilkis, Mehmet Bayram, Mevlut Celikoglu, and Metin Nur. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2012;142:e1-e7 The aim of this study was to present…
Severe complication of a bonded mandibular lingual retainer
Bonding a flexible spiral wire retainer to the lingual surfaces of all 6 anterior mandibular teeth is a commonly used type of retention. Complications are rare but can be serious…
Three-dimensional evaluation of changes in lip position from before to after orthodontic appliance removal
Introduction Our objectives were to develop a reproducible method of superimposing 3-dimensional images for measuring soft-tissue changes over time and to use this method to document changes in lip position…
Correlation of the arch forms of male and female subjects with those of preformed rectangular nickel-titanium archwires
Introduction This investigation was carried out to correlate the normal arch forms of male and female subjects derived mathematically by the beta function with commercially available preformed rectangular nickel-titanium archwires….
Tooth separation: A risk-free procedure?
This article reports the case of a 12-year-old patient with tooth extrusion, pain, gingival bleeding, and localized periodontitis near the maxillary second premolar. Despite probing and radiographic examination, it was…
Impaction of both maxillary central incisors and a canine
This case report describes the treatment of a 14-year-old adolescent patient who had 2 impacted maxillary central incisors with distoangular root dilacerations. He also had an impacted maxillary left canine,…
