Since the beginning of our specialty, our understanding of the link between function and facial growth and development has progressively improved. Today, we know that children with sleep-related breathing problems…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
