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Cover:  This month's cover illustrates the mechanics used to distalize the entire mandibular arch with the Skeletal Anchorage System, as described in the article by Dr. Sugawara and colleagues .

July 2010: Editor's Corner 

Miniscrews and Tongue Studs

Like any other health-care discipline, orthodontics has its share of complications. In a busy practice, it is rare for a day to go by when the orthodontist does not see issues ranging from gingivitis secondary to poor oral hygiene to failure of treatment progress due to poor cooperation to more serious situations such as generalized root resorption. Complications secondary to trauma during treatment also arise on a regular basis, including soft-tissue irritations or abrasions resulting from mucosa rubbing on brackets, auxiliary hooks, or exposed distal ends of archwires.... 

Sinus perforation during TAD placement, always a possibility when miniscrews are inserted in the maxillary posterior region, has not been studied in detail until now....


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July 2010 Issue Highlights

Tabbaa, Guigova, Preston
Midline Diastema Caused by Tongue Piercing
   (This article is freely accessible for a limited time. Click here for a PDF.)

Sugawara, Aymach, Nagasaka, Kawamura, Nanda:
CASE REPORT "Surgery First" Orthognathics to Correct a Skeletal Class II Malocclusion with an Impinging Bite

Gracco, Tracey, Baciliero:
Miniscrew Insertion and the Maxillary Sinus: An Endoscopic Evaluation


  

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