Quest for the best
It is 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon, and you are in the midst of the typically brisk after-school pace. Even though your reception room is full, you decide to take a…
The AJO-DOblog
When I wrote my second editorial for the AJO-DO for the February 2011 issue, I titled it “You have the final word.” The purpose of that editorial was to emphasize…
Author’s response
We would like to thank Dr Doshi for his useful comments and the opportunity to discuss our article. We contrasted 2 treatment strategies and named them “intrusive” and “extrusive” based…
Questioning treatment strategies in hyperdivergent patients
It was fascinating to read the retrospective research article in the September issue comparing 2 contrasting conventional strategies to treat growing hyperdivergent patients (Gkantidis N, Halazonetis DJ, Alexandropoulos E, Haralabakis…
The best continuing education
The February 2012 editorial concluded that perhaps our best continuing education is to “take final records and compare them with the patient’s pretreatment records.” Dougherty finished his May 1987 guest…
Infraoccluded deciduous molars
The article published in the January issue on infraoccluded deciduous molars (Dias C, Closs LQ, Fontanella V, de Araujo FB. Vertical alveolar growth in subjects with infraoccluded mandibular deciduous molars….
Author’s reply
We thank Dr Celikoglu for his interest in our article and for the comments and matters he raised. We mentioned that a late developing dentition with an insufficiently developed lateral…
Questioning the findings about canine displacement
We read with great interest the article on dental age assessment in patients with maxillary canine displacement in the December 2011 issue. We congratulate the authors for their efforts in the…
Top reviewers of 2011
In 2011, the AJO-DO received nearly 850 new manuscript submissions. Our editors issued 1712 review requests, and we received 1308 completed reviews from 477 different reviewers. We are indebted to…
Online only abstracts
Eight-year stability of a severe skeletal anterior open bite with a hyperdivergent growth pattern treated with an edgewise appliance and chin cup therapy Vladimir Cerci, Bruno Bochnia Cerci, Thiago Martins…
