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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
HOMER W. PHILLIPS, DDS
The Advent of Ceramics Every few years some new procedure or material is offered as a major advancement that will solve orthodontic problems. In some instances, these advances have lived up to their e...
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MICHAEL L. SWARTZ, DDS
The recent introduction of ceramic brackets to orthodontics is only part of the rapidly expanding ceramic technology in many industries. The computer's brain is built from the silicon chip--a ceramic....
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KAREN MOAWAD, BS, CAROL LONGSTAFF, RDA, RISA POLLACK, CDA, RDA
Orthodontists are becoming increasingly aware of the threat of communicable diseases that can be transmitted between patients and staff. The most serious diseases include: 1. Hepatitis A, commonly kno...
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EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB, DDS
If management of an orthodontic practice is to be a positive function and not a haphazard endeavor carried wherever it goes by random choices or lack of choices, there must be planning. Planning by se...
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
AMY BARNES, CDA, CDT, ROBERT N. MOORE, DDS, PHD, EDD
In the play Happy Times, the character Sally O'Hare wears orthodontic appliances in the first act, but not in the second. The University of Nebraska Department of Theatre asked us to design a removabl...
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JOHN J. SHERIDAN, DDS
Many clinicians elect to bond a fixed retainer to the lingual surfaces of the lower cuspids and incisors. The appliance is usually removed after two to three years, and the teeth may or may not remain...
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PETER M. SINCLAIR, DDS, MSD
Topics are incisor position and staff hiring.1. If your guide in treatment is the position of the upper or lower incisors, how do you determine that position? If not the position of the incisors, what...
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