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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
LARRY W. WHITE, DDS
The Best of Both WorldsHow many times have you been to a course or meeting and received some information that you promised yourself to use as soon as you got back to the office? But days turn into wee...
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DEAN C. BELLAVIA, PHD
Employee benefits have become a major consideration for people seeking jobs. The health professional is no longer competing just with other health professionals for high-quality employees, but with ot...
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JOHN R. SMITH, DDS, MSD, JOHN C. GORMAN, DMD, MS, CRAVEN KURZ, DDS, RICHARD M. DUNN, DDS
Today's orthodontist can attest to an increase in the demand for orthodontic care by adults. To meet this demand, extensive research and development over the past 10 years have aimed at providing a tr...
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JOHN L. SPOLYAR , DDS, MS
The Porta-Stat, a portable cephalometric and arthrometric cephalostat, was designed to take standardized craniofacial and TMJ x-rays of infants and infirm patients in the clinician's office, the opera...
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CLINICAL AID
DR. FULUNG WANG
Moisture control can be quite difficult when etching and bonding molars, especially with obese patients. A cheek retractor made of .062" stainless steel wire (Fig. 1) can alleviate this problem. To co...
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HELMUT DROSCHL, MD, DDS, PHD, HANS-PETER BANTLEON, MD, DDS
A number of instruments, including the Boone and Dougherty gauges, have been used for accurate positioning of brackets in direct bonding.1-4 Although position adjustments can be made with such an inst...
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CHARLENE LEFLER WHITE, RDH, BS
Ring. Dr. Jones' office. Yes, I'd like to make an appointment. And what would that be for? Well, my dentist said my son needed an orthodontic examination. How old is your son? Twelve. When would you l...
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