Orthodontic dental casts: The case for routine articulator mounting
To mount or not to mount: that is the question. The famous quotation from Hamlet, slightly transformed, continues: “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows…
Residents’ journal review
Oral-health-related quality of life in headgear and functional appliances therapy Kadkhoda S, Nedjat S, Shirazi M. Comparison of oral-health-related quality of life during treatment with headgear and functional appliances. Int…
“Publish or perish”—Who publishes and who perishes?
In your continued attempt to remain current in your specialty, you strive to read every journal that arrives at your office. You cannot help but notice that many articles are…
We must learn to learn from each other
Congratulations on the October 2011 editorial (Kokich VG. Who determines when orthodontic treatment is complete? Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 2011;140:451). I am an orthodontist; I graduated from the Universidad…
Who determines when orthodontic treatment is complete?
I read the October 2011 editorial with great interest, since I am often in the position of working with dentists in multi-disciplinary cases (Kokich VG. Who determines when orthodontic treatment…
Online only abstracts
Physical properties of root cementum: Part 22. Root resorption after the application of light and heavy extrusive orthodontic forces: A microcomputed tomography study Vanessa C. Jiménez Montenegro, Allan Jones, Peter…
What a year!
When this issue reaches you, I will have concluded my first year as Editor-in-Chief of the AJO-DO . It has been an exciting, productive, and eventful year. Although I will…
Don’t throw the scientific self-ligation baby out with the commercial bathwater
As an orthodontic researcher, it behooves me to address certain omissions of fact along with the growing errors emanating from the Guest Editorial in the September 2010 issue, “In the…
