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Volume 17 : Number 1 : Page 53 : Jan 1983
Adult patients present with porcelain crowns and fixed prostheses for which the usual bonding systems are unsatisfactory. Acid etching is ineffectual in preparing the porcelain surface for mechanical ...
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Bonded Temporary Replacement for Missing Incisors
Volume 18 : Number 2 : Page 96 : Feb 1984
This is an esthetic, simple, inexpensive way to temporarily replace missing anterior teeth, using direct bonding. Fabrication will be illustrated on an orthodontic case, with congenitally missing uppe...
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A Toothborne Hawley Type Retainer
Volume 18 : Number 4 : Page 282 : Apr 1984
Patients complain that the conventional Hawley retaining appliance: is too bulky and uncomfortable causes a speech impediment, usually lisping causes a bad taste in the mouth causes a loss of taste se...
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An Arthroscopic Perspective of the Temporomandibular Joint
Volume 21 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1987
The functional anatomy of the TMJ is not well understood. The morbid anatomy has been well described,1,2 but the exact mechanism of disc movement is not known. We have been studying the TMJ with direc...
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Incremental Removal of Bonded Lingual Retainers
Volume 22 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1988
Many clinicians elect to bond a fixed retainer to the lingual surfaces of the lower cuspids and incisors. The appliance is usually removed after two to three years, and the teeth may or may not remain...
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In-Office Screw Appliance Repair
Volume 24 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 1990
When the acrylic of a screw-driven orthodontic appliance breaks, it is essential to repair the appliance and get it back in the patient's mouth as quickly as possible. The following is a simple repair...
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1990 JCO Study of Orthodontic Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures, Part 1: Results and Trends
Volume 25 : Number 3 : Page 0 : Mar 1991
Editor's note: Parts 2 and 3 of this series are published in the April and May 1991 issues of JCO. The 1986 JCO Study of Orthodontic Diagnosis and Treatment Procedures was the first comprehensive nati...
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Computer-Assisted Patient Information System
Volume 28 : Number 9 : Page 0 : Sep 1994
We have developed a computer-assisted patient information system (CAPIS) to help patients visualize the tooth movement and space closure planned during orthodontic treatment. The program consists of a...
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Flexible Financing: A Paradigm Shift
Volume 30 : Number 1 : Page 0 : Jan 1996
Businesses that refuse to adapt internally to external paradigm shifts can face swift consequences. Fifteen of the 75 companies that Peters and Waterman wrote about in their 1982 book, In Search o...
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Slow and Continuous Maxillary Expansion, Molar Rotation, and Molar Distalization
Volume 31 : Number 4 : Page 253 : Apr 1997
An estimated 25-30% of all orthodontic patients can benefit from maxillary expansion, and 95% of Class II cases can be improved by molar rotation, distalization, and expansion.1,2 Rapid palatal expand...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Managing Change and Toothbrushing Stations
Volume 32 : Number 7 : Page 427 : Jul 1998
What change or changes in your office have been most traumatic for your staff? How did the trauma manifest itself? What was the solution to the problem? The vast majority of replies involved convertin...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Volume 33 : Number 1 : Page 27 : Jan 1999
When a patient comes to you for a second opinion on an orthodontic diagnosis, how do you proceed? There was a broad consensus on second-opinion consultations. Ninety-two percent of the respondents men...
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Recordings of Chewing and Border Movements in Typical Malocclusions
Volume 34 : Number 5 : Page 300 : May 2000
Recordings of jaw movements are often used to assess the influence of functional disturbances on individual malocclusions. Divergent paths of opening and closing might indicate reciprocal clicking d...
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New Indirect Bonding Method for Lingual Orthodontics
Volume 33 : Number 6 : Page 348 : Jun 2000
The most significant challenges involved in indirect bonding for lingual orthodontics have been: Keeping the brackets stable enough for precise positioning. Making it easy to remove the indirect tran...
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Uprighting Molars with Twisted Superelastic Nickel Titanium Wires
Volume 35 : Number 2 : Page 100 : Feb 2001
Buccally or lingually tipped molars are traditionally uprighted by torquing them in small increments of 10-25° on rectangular stainless steel archwires. Heat-treated Elgiloy* (CoCr) wires have better...
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Digital Models: A New Diagnostic Tool
Volume 35 : Number 6 : Page 386 : Jun 2001
Plaster casts have traditionally served two main purposes in orthodontics: as a permanent, three-dimensional record of the malocclusion, and as a source of information for diagnosis and treatment p...
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Bonding Interdental Retainers in Patients with Generalized Marginal Bone Loss
Volume 35 : Number 6 : Page 391 : Jun 2001
Retention is a major challenge in patients with generalized marginal bone loss. It is often impossible to keep the maxillary teeth in position using only removable appliances. Bonded lingual retainers...
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
A Nickel Titanium Space Regainer-Retainer
Volume 35 : Number 12 : Page 767 : Dec 2001
With technological advances in archwires have come creative new ways to treat classic orthodontic problems. In 1983, I introduced the concept of covering a nickel titanium archwire with plastic tubi...
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PEARLS
Volume 36 : Number 2 : Page 79 : Feb 2002
Many orthodontists still use real plaster study casts rather than virtual computer images. These models are usually stored in boxes on shelves in or near the treatment area, at least as long as patien...
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The C-Orthodontic Micro-Implant
Volume 9 : Number 9 : Page 0 : Sep 2004
Various skeletal implant systems have been proposed to reinforce orthodontic anchorage without the need for extraoral appliances.1-7 Orthodontic miniscrews or microscrews are efficient, inexpensive, a...
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