Search Results For: 'orthodontics'
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Converting Observation Recalls to New Starts
Volume 28 : Number 4 : Page 0 : Apr 1994
Many orthodontists place 35% or more of their new patients on observation recall. Some of them use this as an excuse for having case acceptance ratios of around 55%. With an effective observation reca...
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The Post-Treatment Consultation
Volume 26 : Number 8 : Page 0 : Aug 1992
Most practice management consultants recommend holding post-treatment consultations to review treatment results with patients and parents. This article will describe a system that has been used succes...
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JCO Cooperative Practice Problem Study: The Impacted Maxillary Cuspid
Volume 4 : Number 7 : Page 404 : Jul 1970
404-jco-img-0.jpgA summary of the first 150 reports in the JCO Impacted Maxillary Cuspid Study is shown in the accompanying chart. If additional reports make any significant change from what is report...
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Volume 1 : Number 10 : Page 146 : Aug 2019
Our final section tackles perhaps the most difficult area of practice management. Once you have found a practice to purchase or have started a new one with bank financing, it is time to build your ort...
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New Treatment Dimensions with First Phase Sectional and Progressive Edgewise Mechanics
Volume 14 : Number 9 : Page 607 : Sep 1980
This paper describes a proven procedure for distalizing maxillary buccal segments and arch leveling. In first phase treatment, sectional modules are inserted to produce unequaled first order mechanics...
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Volume 8 : Number 12 : Page 669 : Dec 1974
On transfer cases, it is assumed that there is an obligation on the part of the original orthodontist to make a referral. It is open to question how deep this obligation should go, when you examine th...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 25 : Number 3 : Page 0 : Mar 1991
The More Things Change One of the more interesting aspects of editing JCO is the discovery, through the various surveys we publish, of how orthodontists practice. The 1990 Study of Orthodontic Diagnos...
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JCO Interviews Dean C. Bellavia, PhD, on Practice Management
Volume 18 : Number 2 : Page 99 : Feb 1984
DR. GOTTLIEB What do you consider to be the ideal one-man practice?DR. BELLAVIA I think the ideal one-man practice has about 300 starts. You must work 40 weeks a year, four days a week, with seven sta...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
The Trouble with "Having It All"
Volume 28 : Number 6 : Page 0 : Jun 1994
The Trouble with ''Having It All''Social changes in recent years have resulted in changes in attitudes about the conditions of employment. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the transformation resul...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 44 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 2010
The World Federation of Orthodontists knows how to pick its spots for a congress.These events, scheduled every five years, were originally held in conjunction with annual AAO meetings. The Sixth Inter...
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Optimizing Treatment Outcomes in Transfer Patients with Severe Roller-Coaster Effects
Volume 58 : Number 1 : Page 37 : Jan 2024
Drs. Venugopal, Hatami, and Ghosh describe how to identify and counteract iatrogenic “roller-coaster effects,” including anterior deep bite, lateral open bite, distal tipping of anterior teeth, and mesial tipping of posterior teeth, in extraction cases. An adult female transfer patient is presented as an example.
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Objective Criteria for Phase I Maxillary Expansion
Volume 58 : Number 4 : Page 236 : Apr 2024
Dr. Tamburrino shows two simple methods of measuring the skeletal transverse dimension. Decision trees are provided for six common scenarios encountered in examinations of young children, as a means of helping the clinician decide whether to initiate or postpone orthopedic expansion.
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The Vari-Simplex Discipline, Part 3: Extraction Treatment
Volume 17 : Number 8 : Page 537 : Aug 1983
In my practice, we treat approximately three out of four cases nonextraction. The decision depends upon the patient's ability to cooperate, and on the orthodontist's ability to produce a result with a...
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Coping with Gingival Recession
Volume 2 : Number 6 : Page 310 : Jun 1968
A Periodontal Correction The orthodontist may see gingival recession caused by the labial position of a tooth; by labial displacement of a tooth during treatment; by a frenum attachment near the gingi...
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CLINICAL AID
A Compartmentalized Tray System
Volume 5 : Number 7 : Page 402 : Jul 1971
Use of a tray system has proven most effective in increasing dental office efficiency and production. In the orthodontic office there is an advantage in modifying the tray to a compartimentalized tray...
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
A Simplified Technique for Fabrication of Surgical Archwires
Volume 14 : Number 7 : Page 489 : Jul 1980
One of the final, important duties of the orthodontist prior to surgery in surgical-orthodontic cases is the fabrication of heavy ideal archwires for jaw fixation after surgery and for elastic wear po...
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PEARLS
Volume 30 : Number 8 : Page 450 : Aug 1996
Adult patients with cervical recession, erosion, or abrasion often have exposed dentin (Fig. A), which is especially sensitive to the chemicals used to etch enamel for orthodontic bonding. I use a cal...
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Volume 2 : Number 7 : Page 0 : Sep 1968
As JPO begins its second year of publication we are no longer an unknown quantity. The profession has been able to judge us by what we have printed. It has become clearer that we are only indirectly i...
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OVERVIEW
Autotransplantation: Team Development and Treatment Protocol for Enhanced Success
Volume 58 : Number 2 : Page 99 : Feb 2024
In this comprehensive review, Dr. Christensen summarizes the advantages of autotransplantation as an option for patients with missing or compromised teeth. Roles of the multidisciplinary team are discussed, and a typical treatment sequence is illustrated by a sample case.
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Long-Term Experience with Direct-Bonded Lingual Retainers
Volume 25 : Number 10 : Page 0 : Oct 1991
Bonding a thin, flexible spiral wire lingually to each tooth in a segment was originally proposed as a simple and effective way to retain anterior teeth in difficult clinical situations.1-5 The twists...
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