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DIGITAL ORTHO LAB
Three-Dimensionally Printed Monolithic Riding Pontics
Volume 59 : Number 2 : Page 115 : Feb 2025
Drs. Kim, Alexander, Norton, Arnason, and Ellis provide a workflow for designing and fabricating personalized riding pontics with improved esthetics and fit. A monolithic design eliminates the bracket-tooth interface, where conventional pontics are most likely to fail.
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Volume 59 : Number 8 : Page 493 : Aug 2025
Drs. Braga and Bocchieri present a nonsurgical approach to treating patients with high-angle facial patterns, gummy smiles, and open bites: an appliance supported by two palatal miniscrews is used for differential intrusion of the entire upper arch, promoting counterclockwise mandibular rotation.
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The PowerScope System for Simplified Class II Treatment
Volume 51 : Number 2 : Page 80 : Feb 2018
The PowerScope is a fixed bite-jumping appliance attached directly to the upper and lower archwires, regardless of the bracket system. The device can be installed at the chair and reactivated as often as needed, and it can be used unilaterally in asymmetrical cases, as shown here by Drs. Gerxhani and Luzi.
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Bridge Technique for Pre-Prosthodontic Management of Wide Spaces
Volume 53 : Number 1 : Page 16 : Jan 2019
Drs. Wilmes, Schumann, and Drescher developed this technique to facilitate lower molar mesialization in a patient with more than one missing tooth. A mini-implant of intermediate size serves as a pier to stabilize the archwire and provide anchorage control.
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Evolution of the Leaf Expander: A Maxillary Self Expander
Volume 53 : Number 5 : Page 260 : May 2019
This completely preactivated expansion device employs light and continuous forces without relying on patient cooperation. Dr. Matteo Beretta and colleagues present two mixed-dentition cases to illustrate their technique and clinical results.
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
Uprighting a Lingually Tilted Lower First Molar with a Double Whip-Spring Appliance
Volume 53 : Number 10 : Page 611 : Oct 2019
This article introduces a simple lingual whip spring that can tip a lingually erupting lower first molar buccally. Because it requires minimal dental anchorage, it is particularly useful in deep-bite cases where fixed appliances are difficult to place.
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Bio-Progressive Therapy, Part 10: Mechanics Sequence for Class II Division II Cases
Volume 12 : Number 6 : Page 427 : Jun 1978
(CONTINUED FROM PART 9) The Bio-Progressive Therapy has long been thought of as a sectionalized approach. While, in the minds of most clinicians, a sectional approach to mechanics seems useful only in...
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Volume 2 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1968
Fig. 1 There are times when a conventional Hawley retainer just does not stay in place. You spend what seems like endless chair-time in the middle of a busy afternoon making all kinds of adjustments i...
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Volume 2 : Number 10 : Page 418 : Oct 1968
The removal of cement from the teeth after band cementation and band removal is a long and tedious job that occupies the orthodontist in a most non-productive manner. The answer to this problem is the...
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A Technique for Realignment and Stripping of Crowded Lower Incisors
Volume 3 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1969
Well-aligned and separated lower incisors can be stripped with greater accuracy and with less danger of mutilating approximating teeth. Therefore, this technique first realigns the crowded lower incis...
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More About the Universal Appliance
Volume 5 : Number 2 : Page 72 : Feb 1971
This paper may be considered a continuation of "The Universal Appliance Today", Parts I and II, published in the November and December 1969 issues of JPO. Some of the drawings have been adapted from t...
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
Space Closer with 6-6 Elastic Thread Ligature
Volume 6 : Number 1 : Page 48 : Jan 1972
In debanding, it is wise to remove upper anterior bands first. If there is more space between the anterior teeth than you would want to close with a retainer (Fig. 1), you have the option of closing i...
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Volume 6 : Number 7 : Page 404 : Jul 1972
One of the most frequently used retaining appliances is the lower cuspid-to-cuspid retainer. Since the appliance is relatively simple, the orthodontist may be lulled into a false sense of security. He...
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A Removable Cuspid-to-Cuspid Retainer
Volume 7 : Number 2 : Page 118 : Feb 1973
Retention of the lower teeth has been accomplished through many different methods: tooth positioners, Hawley retainers, six-to-six and cuspid-to-cuspid fixed lingual retainers. Which retention method ...
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Volume 7 : Number 3 : Page 187 : Mar 1973
On almost 100% of the patients in our office we will use a high labial retainer on the upper arch and a retainer on the lower arch with no labial frame but with elastic hooks supporting elastics acros...
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A New and Simple Palate Splitting Device
Volume 7 : Number 6 : Page 368 : Jun 1973
Since the revival of palatal suture splitting devices by Dr. Andrew Haas, it has been apparent that a more simple, but equally efficient, appliance was needed. The construction of bands, taking an imp...
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Volume 9 : Number 11 : Page 713 : Nov 1975
Experience with the computerized timing headgear in the treatment of over two hundred cases in my office has produced some interesting new information about its use and its impact on an orthodontic pr...
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Volume 10 : Number 7 : Page 505 : Jul 1976
An orthodontist can largely overcome the eroding effect of inflation on his purchasing power by tying his fee structure to the annual inflation rate or by being paid in advance and investing the money...
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Orthodontic Assessment by the Numbers
Volume 12 : Number 2 : Page 116 : Feb 1978
This assessment uses three groups of numbers to describe the extent of a malocclusion in quantitative terms, when the teeth are in centric occlusion: GROUP 1--The relationships of the maxillary and ma...
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Common Sense Mechanics, Part 11
Volume 14 : Number 7 : Page 481 : Jul 1980
(CONTINUED FROM PART 10) Simultaneous Cuspid and Bicuspid Retraction During the discussions on cuspid retraction, bicuspid retraction, and molar protraction, it was seen that location of the bend in t...
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