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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS
Retirement is the subject of this month's Management & Marketing column. The article addresses a concern that faces all of us: If you live long enough, you will retire. There are not many 80-year-...
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DEBRA F. COOK DDS, MS, JAMES J. HILGERS DDS, MS
One of the most vexing problems encountered by orthodontists is that of undersize or peg-shaped upper lateral incisors. According to "Divine Proportion" calculations, the ideal width of an upper later...
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JOSÉ AUGUSTO M. MIGUEL DDS, MDSC, MÁRCIO ALEXANDRE CARDOSO DDS
Model surgery is typically performed before presurgical orthodontics to determine whether the anticipated surgery will produce an occlusion that can be ideally finished with subsequent orthodontic tre...
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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
JERRY R. CLARK DDS
Most orthodontists envision spending their latter years in some form of retirement, with a wide range of wonderful choices based on financial independence. In this month's column, Dr. Jerry Clark pres...
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ROBERT G. KEIM DDS, EDD, PHD, EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS, ALLEN H. NELSON PHD, DAVID S. VOGELS III
This third installment in our four-part series on the 2003 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study will cover growth in case starts and gross income during the two years since the 2001 Study. We will also exam...
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JAMES CHENG-YI LIN DDS, ERIC JEIN-WEIN LIOU DDS, MS
Although the efficacy of endosseous implants for orthodontic anchorage has been verified both clinically1,2 and experimentally,3-5 their clinical applications are generally confined to partially edent...
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S. JAY BOWMAN DMD, MSD, ALDO CARANO DO, MS
Various forms of interarch and intra-arch mechanics have been devised for the eruption of impeded and impacted teeth. One such device, the Monkey Hook*, was recently introduced as a method of applying...
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