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781.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 23 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1989
The Past Is Prologue Forecasting is an inexact science, so a review of the predictions made by JCO'S Senior Editor, Gene Gottlieb, at the beginning of this decade left me with a new appreciation for h...
782.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 25 : Number 7 : Page 0 : Jul 1991
Do You Know Your Customers?Editorialists have traditionally used space like this to offer advice to readers. In this issue I would like to reverse that strategy and ask for some advice that will help ...
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How to Maintain the High Tech-High Touch Balance
Volume 27 : Number 6 : Page 0 : Jun 1993
Today's orthodontic practice is required to be both "high tech"--on the leading edge of systems for diagnosis, scheduling, practice management, and financial control--and "high touch"--able to provide...
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A System for Thorough Retention Checks
Volume 27 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1993
As an orthodontic practice matures, the number of patients in retention increases. The sheer number of such patients may eventually become a management problem. Rather than arbitrarily shortening the ...
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Volume 28 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1994
All orthodontists are familiar with the after school rush, which not only causes stress and turmoil, but can extend treatment time and even affect treatment quality. In the late 1980s, this problem se...
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A Fixed-Removable Herbst Appliance
Volume 28 : Number 4 : Page 0 : Apr 1994
The Herbst appliance has gained great popularity among orthodontists because it works 24 hours per day, requires minimal patient cooperation, shortens treatment time, and reduces the need for orthogna...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 29 : Number 12 : Page 735 : Dec 1995
Fortune magazine calls EVA--economic value added--today's hottest financial idea and the one most likely to get even hotter. G. Bennett Stewart III of Stern Stewart and Co. has provided a bible for th...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Where There Is More Than a Will
Volume 29 : Number 7 : Page 365 : Jul 1996
If you have ever served as an executor of an estate, you are aware of how much harder the job can be if the decedent's records are not available in some systematic arrangement. Death, as they say, is ...
789.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 31 : Number 9 : Page 547 : Sep 1997
There has been a flurry of interest among management analysts in a training method of the U.S. Army. For a long time, the Army has used field maneuvers to practice tactics and battlefield procedures. ...
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Volume 31 : Number 11 : Page 754 : Nov 1997
Clear thermoplastic appliances have been recommended for use as transitional retainers, finishing appliances,1 and even permanent retainers.2 They are easy to fabricate, inexpensive, esthetic, and com...
791.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 32 : Number 4 : Page 201 : Apr 1998
Fortune magazine recently published a list of the 10 most admired companies in America. They were (from first to 10th place): General Electric, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Southwest ...
792.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Viewing the Child Patient as a Customer
Volume 34 : Number 2 : Page 69 : Feb 2000
Peter Drucker turned 90 the other day. You may have read his extraordinary book, The Practice of Management, which in one volume established management as a separate discipline. It did more than that...
793.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 34 : Number 3 : Page 125 : Mar 2000
Growing numbers of orthodontists are turning to web-design services to develop and maintain a presence on the Internet. The main function of these websites is advertising to the general public, and fr...
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The Nance Holding Arch with Bite Rim
Volume 34 : Number 5 : Page 280 : May 2000
Maxillary bite plates, used in patients with severe deep bites to allow placement of mandibular brackets earlier in treatment, are removable, and their effectiveness depends on patient cooperation. Th...
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Patients' Perceptions Before, During, and After Orthodontic Treatment
Volume 34 : Number 10 : Page 591 : Oct 2000
Although many practices survey their patients after treatment, the results of such surveys have not been reported in the literature. This report describes a survey I designed to gain insight into pati...
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The K-9 Spring for Alignment of Impacted Canines
Volume 34 : Number 10 : Page 606 : Oct 2000
Ectopic eruption and impaction of the maxillary permanent canines occurs in about 2% of orthodontic patients.1-4 Impactions are twice as common in females as in males,5 and the incidence of palatal ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 34 : Number 12 : Page 689 : Dec 2000
Given the current doldrums and uncertainties in the stock market, this might be a good time to pause and examine what you have invested in equities or other speculative ventures. Actually, no matter w...
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What Hiring Questions Should You Ask?
Volume 35 : Number 2 : Page 89 : Feb 2001
Did you ever reach the point in a job interview when you needed to extract crucial information, but didn't know how to ask the right question? Worse yet, did you ask it in such a way that could lead ...
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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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CASE REPORT
Orthodontic Traction of an Impacted Maxillary Central Incisor
Volume 35 : Number 6 : Page 375 : Jun 2001
Labial impaction occurs in 1%-2% of orthodontic patients,1 with the maxillary canine impacted most frequently.2 Although impaction of maxillary incisors is seen less often, the incisors are more s...
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