No tricks, please
It’s time again for your annual national convention, and this year you’ve decided to take the entire family. The venue is perfect: dependably mild weather, world–renowned restaurants, and plenty for…
Evidence-based practice and the evidence pyramid: A 21st century orthodontic odyssey
Organized evidence-based practice is said to have started in the medical field in the late 20th century. Its principles and usage eventually spread to other health sciences, including orthodontics. Although the…
Prevalence of malocclusion in Canadian children with autism spectrum disorder
Introduction The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of malocclusion among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to describe the most common malocclusion traits in this…
Harms and adverse events in clinical research
Harm is “the totality of possible adverse consequences of an intervention or therapy.” An adverse event is any unfavorable or harmful occurrence in a patient, temporarily related to a medical…
Effect of cervical or high-pull headgear on the vertical dimensions of Class II Division 1 patients
We read the article entitled “Change in the vertical dimension of Class II Division 1 patients after use of cervical or high-pull headgear” by Zervas et al in the November 2016…
Effects of short-term in-vivo studies on orthodontic root resorption paradigms
We want to praise Dr Darendeliler and his group for another excellent short-term in-vivo study of orthodontic root resorption, published in the January 2017 issue (Patterson BM, Dalci O, Papadopoulou…
Extraction frequencies
I read with a great deal of interest the article on extraction frequencies in the March issue of the journal (Jackson TH, Guez C, Lin FC, Proffit WR, Ko CC….
