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September 1991
Volume 25, Issue 9

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

A Test for the Profession?

EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB, DDS

A Test for the Profession?A growing amount of media attention is focusing on the potential for an AIDS-infected physician or dentist to transmit the disease to patients. There have been instances in b...

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An Effective Fee Schedule

DEAN C. BELLAVIA, MS, PHD

Most practices lose $10,000-65,000 in net income every year because they don't have properly calculated fee schedules. About half of the loss is due to mis-feeing phase I, limited, and TMJ treatment. ...

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THE READERS' CORNER

PETER M. SINCLAIR, DDS, MSD

Topics are non-acceptance of treatment and ceramic brackets.1. What do you do to avoid failed appointments at the first appointment? the records appointment following initial consultation? the case pr...

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CASE REPORT

A Case of Possible Latex Allergy

E.J. NEIBURGER, DDS

A 43-year-old female complained of a vesicular dermatitis on her lower lip (Fig. 1). The lesion consisted of a red band of inflamed tissue 1cm wide, extending about 2.5cm across the central portion of...

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The Cranial Base Triangle

ANTHONY D. VIAZIS, DDS, MS

The anterior wall of sella turcica and the cribriform plate (laminar cribrosa) remain unchanged after age 5.1-4 This means that no further growth or remodeling will affect these areas of the cranial b...

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Effect of Prophylaxis Pastes on Shear Bond Strength

FRANKLIN GARCIA-GODOY, DDS, MS, RAUL PEREZ, DDS, GREGORY W. HUBBARD, DDS

Orthodontists generally clean enamel surfaces with a slurry of fine flour of pumice, rather than with a prophylaxis paste, prior to acid etching for direct bonding. It is believed that the fluoride co...

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In-Office Wire Repair

JAY TYLER, CDT

One of the most common wire breakage sites on an orthodontic appliance is where the wire enters the acrylic. If the break occurs in an area in occlusal contact with the opposing arch, it is probably b...

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CLINICAL AID

A Retraction Headgear for Bilateral Cleft Lip

ROBERT M. MASON, PHD, DMD

An infant with a bilateral cleft lip sometimes has a premaxilla that is so protrusive that the surgeon cannot perform a lip-closure operation until the premaxilla and soft-tissue lip (prolabium) are r...

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