Ahead to basics
Your residency—and your formal education—are finally completed. Ever since your uncle inspired you to become an orthodontist by his good example, you have wanted to return to your hometown and…
Orthodontics
Residents’ journal review
Patient adherence during removable functional appliance therapy Schafer K, Ludwig B, Meyer-Gutknecht H, Schott TC. Quantifying patient adherence during active orthodontic treatment with removable appliances using microelectronic wear-time documentation. Eur J…
History of orthodontic education
The Centennial Guest Editorial by Dr Henry W. Fields in the July 2015 issue provided superb reading about the evolution of orthodontic education over the last 100 years. In his essay,…
Where are we going?
Last winter, I attended our orthodontic program’s annual alumni meeting, held at a hotel about 20 minutes away from my house. The weather had been bad all day, despite forecasts for…
The AJO-DOand the history of orthodontics
As a longtime devotee of orthodontic history, I was curious to learn how much the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics ( AJO-DO ) had done to record the…
Reflections on the future
Now that I am 18 months into my academic retirement, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on graduate orthodontic education. I spent 4 decades teaching in the graduate…
Back to the future
I discovered America in 1933, and many of the features we use and appreciate today were already in use then: eg, automobiles, commercial airlines, electric lights, telephones, radio, talking movies,…
The “quack” in the orthodontist
I read with interest Dr Kevin O’Brien’s Centennial Guest Editorial, “Orthodontic quackery” (Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2015;148:202-3), and would like to comment. I am an actor who plays the…
New vistas in orthodontic research
I hate open bites! I don’t understand their etiology, I don’t understand why they don’t self-correct, I don’t seem to be able to identify the diagnostic features that are really…
The history of orthodontic education: A century of development and debate
The history of orthodontic education in the United States spans more than 100 years. A number of exhortations have been repeated over the years by some of the best minds in…
