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July 2013
Volume 47, Issue 7

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

A Cautionary Tale

ROBERT G. KEIM DDS, EdD, PhD

I have written several times in this space about the necessity of maintaining excellent case records. Although my emphasis has been on taking high-quality pre- and post-treatment records for patient d...

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A Customized Method for Palatal Crib Fabrication

DANIELA FEU MSc, PhD, LUCIANE MACEDO DE MENEZES MSc, PhD, ANA PAULA ABDO QUINTÃO, CATIA CARDOSO ABDO QUINTÃO MSc, PhD

The etiology of anterior open bite involves a multitude of factors: unfavorable growth, heredity, pacifier and digital habits, retained infantile swallowing habits, enlarged lymphatic tissue, tongue f...

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JCO INTERVIEWS

Drs. S.J. "Jack" Burrow and William R. Proffit on the Efficacy of Self-Ligating Brackets

S.J. "JACK" BURROW III DDS, MS, WILLIAM R. PROFFIT DDS, PhD, ROBERT G. KEIM DDS, EdD, PhD

DR. KEIM You have both stated, "The controversy of self-ligating brackets should be over." But the January 2013 issue of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics features a Poi...

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CASE REPORT

Early Class III Treatment with a Facemask Anchored by Fixed Appliances

MAURO COZZANI DMD, MSCD, ANNA MENINI DMD, WILLIAM M. THOMAS DDS

Class III malocclusion has a multifactorial etiology involving both genetic and environmental causes.1-3 It can be characterized by a prognathic mandible, a retrognathic maxilla, or both,1,4 and is so...

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BOOK REVIEWS

Atlas of Cone Beam Imaging for Dental Applications; What’s in Your Mouth?

JAMES MAH DDS, MSC, MRCD, DMSc

Atlas of Cone Beam Imaging for Dental Applications DALE A. MILES, DDS, MS, Editor 2nd edition. 408 pages, 624 illustrations. $142. 2013.   Quintessence Publishing Co., Inc., 4350 Chandler Drive, Hanov...

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TECHNIQUE CLINIC

Single-Tooth Intrusion with a Cross Tube and a Cantilever Spring

BAO T. VU DDS, MDS, SHEILA SOROUSHIAN DMD

An auxiliary spring is sometimes needed during orthodontic treatment to perform intrusion or a similar tooth movement. If there is no auxiliary tube on the molar band, we use a cross tube* (A) to supp...

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Orthodontic Extrusion with a Thermoformed Appliance

MATHEUS MELO PITHON DDS, MSC, PhD, MAIANNA GONÇALVES SANTOS MS, JOÃO MILTON ROCHA GUSMÃO MS

Restoring a smile requires attention not only to the size, shape, and shade of teeth, but also to the supporting hard and soft tissues. Moving teeth in the same direction as that of eruption, in the a...

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Preprosthetic Molar Uprighting Using Skeletal Anchorage

MANUEL NIENKEMPER DDS, MSC, ALEXANDER PAULS DDS, BJÖRN LUDWIG DMD, MSD, BENEDICT WILMES DMD, MSD, PhD, DIETER DRESCHER DMD, PhD

Unless a prosthetic replacement is inserted soon after extraction or loss of a first molar, the second molar may tip mesially into the edentulous space. Not only will the first-molar space contract me...

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