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December 1999
Volume 33, Issue 12

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

A New Golden Age?

LARRY W. WHITE DDS, MSD

The first cellular phone Lue and I bought a few years ago cost more than $900. We thought it was a little expensive, but probably worth the investment. The other day we purchased a new one that is muc...

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1999 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study, Part 3: Practice Growth and Other Variables

EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS, ALLEN H. NELSON PHD, DAVID S. VOGELS III

Parts 1 and 2 in this series of reports on the 1999 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study have covered trends in orthodontic economics and practice administration, as well as factors that seem related to suc...

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JCO Interviews Dr Junji Sugawara on the Skeletal Anchorage System

LARRY W. WHITE DDS, MSD, JUNJI SUGAWARA

DR. WHITE When and how did you develop the idea for the Skeletal Anchorage System (SAS)? DR. SUGAWARA In 1992, we had a patient with a severe anterior crossbite and no molars for anchorage in the mand...

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TECHNIQUE CLINIC

Custom-Fit Plastic Chin Cup

WALTER C. WADE DDS

An acrylic chin cup is more comfortable for the patient to wear when it is adapted pre­cisely to the chin. The disadvan­tage is that the procedure to make these customized chin cups is complicated and...

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Lingual Lever-Arm Technique for En Masse Translation in Patients with Generalized Marginal Bone Loss

RAYMOND E. SIATKOWSKI DMD

Two mechanical difficulties make orthodontic treatment of patients with generalized mar­ginal bone loss particularly demanding: 1. The centers of resistance of the teeth move toward the apices about 6...

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A New Appliance for Orthopedic Correction of Class III Malocclusion

YOUN-SIC CHUN DDS, MSD, PHD, SEONG-GWEON JEONG DDS, JOON ROW DDS, MSD, PHD, SUNG-JAE YANG DDS

Orthopedic correction of the growing Class III patient is designed to improve the profile and occlusion by protracting the maxilla and reposi­tioning the mandible.1-3 Although maxillary expander-facem...

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A Simple Method of Determining the Bite-Opening Effect of Posterior Extrusion

HASSAN NOROOZI DDS, MS

Each believed to cause 2mm of bite opening in the incisor region,1 but this is only a rough estimation. The present article shows how to determine the exact amount of anterior bite opening caused by t...

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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING

Today's Top Challenges for Orthodontists, Part 2

LEE ANN PENICHE, KEN ALEXANDER, PAUL D. ZUELKE

This month's column is a continuation of a theme begun in the September issue. Three man­agement consultants were asked to identify the most common challenges they encounter in working with orthodonti...

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