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February 2000
Volume 34, Issue 2

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

Viewing the Child Patient as a Customer

EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS

Peter Drucker turned 90 the other day. You may have read his extraordinary book, The Practice of Management, which in one volume established manage­ment as a separate discipline. It did more than that...

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Self-Ligation in the Year 2000

JEFF BERGER BDS, DOrth

The first self-ligating bracket, the Russell attachment, was developed by a New York orthodontic pioneer, Dr. Jacob Stolzenberg, in the early 1930s.1 This bracket had a flat-head screw seated snugly i...

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LETTERS

Modified Krol Method

IAIN G. EDWARDS

I was interested in Dr. Seong-Hun Kim's Technique Clinic, "Prevention of Gagging with a Modified Krol's Method" (JCO, October 1999), in which the patient is asked to lift their leg during an impressio...

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A Simple Means of Ensuring Class II Elastic Wear

CHRISTOPHER K. KESLING DDS, MS

Appliances such as the Eureka Spring*, Saif springs**, the Jasper Jumper***,1 the Pendu­lum†,2 and the Herbst‡3,4 were developed to cor­rect Class I and Class II malocclusions without relying on patie...

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Maxillary Molar Intrusion with the Molar Intrusion Arch

YOUN-SIC CHUN DDS, MSD, PHD, YONG-JE WOO DDS, JOON ROW DDS, MSD, PHD, EUN-JAE JUNG DDS

We have developed a new appliance for max­illary molar intrusion, the Molar Intrusion Arch (MIA), as shown in this article. Appliance Construction and Placement The most critical factor in the intrusi...

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A Xenon Arc Light-Curing Unit for Bonding and Bleaching

VITTORIO CACCIAFESTA DDS, MSC, MARIA FRANCESCA SFONDRINI MD, DDS, GIUSEPPE SFONDRINI MD, DDS

The disadvantage of the first ultraviolet curing lights was that one minute of curing was required per millimeter of thickness.1,2 The ben­zoin methyl ether component of the early light­-cured composi...

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TECHNIQUE CLINIC

Esthetic and Hygienic Ligation

KAZUHIKO TAMARI, BANNA SA'DO

This method places a continu­ous ligature wire beneath the main archwire in the bracket slots, so that the ligature wire is virtually invisible (Fig. 1). We use .009" or narrower ligature wires with ....

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CASE REPORT

Uprighting of a Deeply Impacted Mandibular Second Bicuspid During Root Development

MASAYO NODA DDS, TAKAO NODA DDS, PHD

Various methods have been proposed for the extrusion of impacted teeth,1-3 the most com­mon being orthodontic traction after surgical exposure. Few re­ports, however, have demon­strated treatment of i...

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PEARLS

Two Rapid Methods of Reactivating Open-Coil Springs

ROBERT E. BINDER DMD

Occasionally an open-coil spring is not long enough to open the entire space needed for alignment of a displaced tooth, such as a lingually locked premolar or a canine in buccoversion. In such a case,...

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PEARLS

Preventing Accidental Removal of Lingual Arches

ROBERT R. LOKAR DDS, MS

Making it difficult for the patient to accidentally dislodge a removable lingual arch usually results in an appliance that is difficult to remove for adjustments as well. To circumvent this problem, I...

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