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581.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 33 : Number 2 : Page 69 : Feb 1999
To my knowledge, Clayton Christensen is the first management consultant to suggest that dominant, well-managed firms can fail because of what they do right. They can listen to their customers, careful...
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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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2003 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study, Part 3: Practice Growth and Staff Data
Volume 37 : Number 12 : Page 667 : Dec 2003
This third installment in our four-part series on the 2003 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study will cover growth in case starts and gross income during the two years since the 2001 Study. We will also exam...
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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 40 : Number 3 : Page 133 : Mar 2006
Long-face syndrome has been a vexing problem for orthodontists, oral surgeons, and otorhinolaryngologists for some time now. I have heard it debated whether this particular constellation of clinical s...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 42 : Number 7 : Page 373 : Jul 2008
The Journal of Clinical Orthodontics has always been devoted to the practical side of the specialty. In the first Editor's Corner of the inaugural issue (September 1967), Dr. Eugene Gottlieb stated th...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 44 : Number 9 : Page 521 : Sep 2010
Given that my private faculty practice is adjacent to the main campus of the University of Southern California, which is predominantly a residential university with few commuter students, I get a disp...
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Gradual Grinding of a Talon Cusp During Orthodontic Treatment
Volume 46 : Number 2 : Page 111 : Feb 2012
Dens evaginatus is a developmental aberration of a tooth resulting in formation of an accessory cusp that has been described as an abnormal tubercle, elevation, protuberance, excrescence, extrusion, o...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 48 : Number 10 : Page 597 : Oct 2014
Every time I attend the AAO Annual Session or one of the regional orthodontic society meetings, I make a point of informally surveying JCO readers. While we do have more structured means of keeping ou...
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A Practical Approach to Presurgical Orthodontic Preparation
Volume 32 : Number 6 : Page 350 : Jun 1998
Over the past decade, new rigid-fixation techniques have improved the skeletal stability of most surgical cases, at least in the months immediately following surgery, compared to traditional wire fixa...
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A Lip Retractor for Intraoral Photography
Volume 8 : Number 8 : Page 465 : Aug 1974
Adequate access for occlusal intraoral photographs has been limited by the difficulty in management of retraction of the lips and cheeks. Dr. Brainerd F. Swain, recognizing this inherent problem, has ...
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Converting Color Slides into Black and White Enlargements
Volume 12 : Number 10 : Page 727 : Oct 1978
As part of our practice management program, our office provides the referring dentist pre- and postorthodontic photographs at the completion of treatment. Because of the cost of color enlargements and...
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The Agonizing Choice of a Doctor in His 50's
Volume 13 : Number 1 : Page 54 : Jan 1979
Too few doctors realize that they must decide during the decade of their fifties the method by which they will eventually withdraw from practice. Far more frequently the issue is evaded or never consi...
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Orthodontic Economic Index--1982
Volume 16 : Number 7 : Page 477 : Jul 1982
The orthodontic economic index presented here was derived from an analysis of over 200 orthodontic practices established for five years or longer. No new practices were included, and high and low extr...
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Organizing an Infection Control Program
Volume 22 : Number 7 : Page 0 : Jul 1988
If you have not already organized an infection control program in your office, you can do so in several stages. First, appoint (or hire) an infection control officer. This person should be responsible...
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1991 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study, Part 3: Practice Growth
Volume 26 : Number 1 : Page 0 : Jan 1992
Editor's note: Parts 1 and 2 of this series are published in the November and December 1991 issues of JCO.Part 1 of this series (JCO, November 1991) outlined the distribution and methodology of JCO's ...
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1993 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study, Part 3: Practice Growth
Volume 27 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 1993
Previous articles in this series covered the distribution and methodology of the seventh biennial JCO survey of U.S. orthodontists, analyzed trends in orthodontic economics and practice administration...
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Volume 30 : Number 9 : Page 503 : Sep 1996
Orthodontic treatment can never be finished to a perfect result. The decision to terminate treatment, unless it is forced by the patient or outside circumstances, is based on a subjective evaluation t...
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Miniscrew Treatment of Ectopic Mandibular Molars
Volume 7 : Number 7 : Page 380 : Jul 2003
This article describes our experience with miniscrews in the treatment of ectopic lower second molars. Screw Selection and Placement The miniscrews* we use for orthodontic anchorage are made of pure m...
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BOOK REVIEWS
Twin Block Functional Therapy: Applications in Dentofacial Orthopaedics
Volume 37 : Number 9 : Page 476 : Sep 2003
WILLIAM J. CLARK, BS, DDO2nd edition. 384 pages. 1,344 illustrations. $160. 2002.Mosby11830 Westline Industrial DriveSt. Louis, MO 63146(800) 325-4177; www.mosby.com As the author insightfully points ...
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