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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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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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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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