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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
Profit Realization: A New Standard of Practice Success
Volume 33 : Number 6 : Page 333 : Jun 1999
When I first started practice nearly 25 years ago, the focus of many consultants and practice-management lecturers was on gross production. That was the way to evaluate the success of a practice. Man...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 33 : Number 9 : Page 481 : Sep 1999
Built-in torque has undoubtedly made orthodontists' lives easier, but it would be a delusion to think that there is a formula that works for every case. A bracket prescription may work just right a p...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 33 : Number 12 : Page 669 : Dec 1999
The first cellular phone Lue and I bought a few years ago cost more than $900. We thought it was a little expensive, but probably worth the investment. The other day we purchased a new one that is muc...
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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
Volume 34 : Number 3 : Page 145 : Mar 2000
Our guest columnist for this edition is Dr. Robert Fry from Olathe, Kansas. Together with his associate, Dr. Arlen Staab, he presents a new perspective on finding an associate. With the large number o...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
The Habitual Vision of Greatness
Volume 34 : Number 5 : Page 261 : May 2000
One of my friends had the good fortune of studying with Alfred North Whitehead after the great philosopher and mathematician came from England to Harvard for a short period. One of the most enduring l...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 34 : Number 8 : Page 451 : Aug 2000
My transition from private professional life to an academic one at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio is only a few months old. I came to UTHSCSA to direct the new orthodonti...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 2 : Page 69 : Feb 2001
I have heard retirement described as one of the seven wonders of the world: I wonder what I am going to do on Monday, I wonder what I am going to do on Tuesday, and so on. Another viewpoint is summed ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 3 : Page 127 : Mar 2001
Several years ago, I noticed that I was converting into patients only about 70% of the people who came to my office and had records made. Not only that, but many of the 30% who did not choose to have ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 4 : Page 201 : Apr 2001
Johnny Mercer could not have known when he wrote the song, "Accentuate the Positive", that he was forecasting a 21st-century management theory, but four lines of that lyric capture exactly the idea pr...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 7 : Page 409 : Jul 2001
The facial photographs that most orthodontists take for before-and-after records can play an important part in the diagnostic process. Although frontal analysis is generally neglected, both a frontal ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 12 : Page 721 : Dec 2001
The Discovery Channel recently presented a BBC series of four programs called "The Human Face". In it, beauty and human attractiveness were related to the Golden Ratio, which for centuries has been th...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 36 : Number 8 : Page 429 : Aug 2002
It's a well-known fact that history is not so much a steady stream as a paroxysmal flow, with long periods of relatively quiescent progress interrupted by brief periods of tumultuous change. These sho...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 37 : Number 2 : Page 61 : Feb 2003
I recently attended a daylong talk by a noted speaker who has been on the orthodontic lecture circuit for more than 30 years. I had seen most of the material that he presented on a number of previous ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 37 : Number 5 : Page 237 : May 2003
Anyone who has not been stranded on a desert island for the last six months is well acquainted with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. It has been a lead item on the evening news pract...
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Volume 37 : Number 8 : Page 438 : Aug 2003
The Inman Aligner*, a versatile removable appliance, is a unique modification of the traditional spring retainer. It uses superelastic open-coil springs to create light and constant forces on both the...
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Treatment of a Unilateral Class II, Division 2 Malocclusion with a Palatally Impacted Canine
Volume 37 : Number 9 : Page 479 : Sep 2003
This 14-year-old female presented with the chief complaint of a palatally impacted maxillary right canine (Figs. 1A, 1B, and 1C.). Her facial profile was mesognathic-convex. The frontal photographs sh...
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ORTHODONTIC OFFICE DESIGN
Volume 37 : Number 10 : Page 533 : Oct 2003
Office design has always been affected by advances in technology. Computers are now part of the orthodontic landscape throughout the office, not just at the reception desk. In addition, provisions of ...
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Double Transfer Trays for Indirect Bonding
Volume 38 : Number 1 : Page 8 : Jan 2004
Indirect bonding has a number of advantages over direct bonding, including greater accuracy of bracket positioning and the ability to customize bracket prescriptions according to individual case requi...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 38 : Number 6 : Page 317 : Jun 2004
Did you ever have one of those days when it seems like the only things that don't go wrong are the ones that just don't happen at all? Not too long ago, I had a couple of those days almost back to bac...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 38 : Number 8 : Page 413 : Aug 2004
This summer, for the first time, I was honored to be one of the four invited speakers at the University of Southern California's Annual Review of Dentistry--an exclusive lecture series, consisting of ...
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