The Editor's Corner

Bone Augmentation Through Orthodontic Movement

...Always an excellent and exciting speaker, Dr. Zachrisson presented a series of cases that I would never have considered treating until then. Although adult orthodontic treatment had become pretty common well before that time, the cases shown by Dr. Zachrisson represented the first I had seen of geriatric orthodontics in practice. His patients ranged in age from 65 to 82 and represented all common forms of malocclusion, with the exception of surgical cases. Of course, every case had turned out beautifully and would have been admirable no matter what the patient’s age, but the ones that interested me the most were the treatments undertaken specifically for the purpose of developing alveolar bone...

On the cover: The T-Scan Occlusal Analysis described by Dr. Koval is illustrated on this month’s cover.