A century of influence: Part 2. The greatest generation
The story of orthodontics during the first 100 years of Journal publication can be told through the people who lived it. As part of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial…
Orthodontics
Effect of social media in improving knowledge among patients having fixed appliance orthodontic treatment: A single-center randomized controlled trial
Introduction Research has shown that orthodontic patients are more likely to retain information presented in an audiovisual format. However, there has been little research on the effectiveness of audiovisual information…
How much is too much?
Rosa is a radiant, affectionate 10-year-old girl who was adopted from Central America. The restorative dentistry that had been provided for her before her adoption was accomplished without local anesthesia. Although…
Residents’ journal review
Alveolar bone assessment by cone-beam computerized tomography Ma ZG, Yang C, Fang B, Xia YH, Mao LX, Feng YM. Three-D imaging of dental alveolar bone change after fixed orthodontic treatment…
P. Raymond Begg
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I greatly enjoyed it (Burke C. A century of influence: part 1. Orthodontic pioneers. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2015;147(Suppl 2):S155-60.) I…
Authors’ response
We thank Dr R. C. Solem for his valuable comments on our article (Alqerban A, Jacobs R, Fieuws S, Willems G. Radiographic predictors for maxillary canine impaction. Am J Orthod Dentofacial…
Graduate Orthodontic Residents Program: Exactly what is GORP?
If the reader graduated from an orthodontic residency before 1988, there is little likelihood that he or she would have any firsthand knowledge of the Graduate Orthodontic Residents Program, referred…
Orthodontic quackery
Orthodontic quackery. What is it, and how does it relate to the history and the future of our specialty? The place to start is to define both conventional orthodontic treatment…
Limitation of a cross-sectional study
The study “Radiographic predictors for maxillary canine impaction” published in the March 2015 issue (Alqerban A, Jacobs R, Fieuws S, Willems G. Radiographic predictors for maxillary canine impaction. Am J…
Authors’ response
We want to thank the authors of this letter to the editor for their comments regarding our article. We are fully aware of the limitation of using Hounsfield units (HU) to…
