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Time Savings with Self-Ligating Brackets
Volume 24 : Number 1 : Page 0 : Jan 1990
Despite a wide range of protective techniques for sterilization and infection control, orthodontists are still exposed daily to infectious hazards.1-6 The possibility of puncture wounds from ligatures...
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Biomechanical Guidelines for Headgear Application
Volume 16 : Number 5 : Page 308 : May 1982
The efficient use of the headgear requires a sound knowledge of basic biomechanics. Understanding how to control the direction and magnitude of the forces produced by various headgear designs is param...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Managing Change and Toothbrushing Stations
Volume 32 : Number 7 : Page 427 : Jul 1998
What change or changes in your office have been most traumatic for your staff? How did the trauma manifest itself? What was the solution to the problem? The vast majority of replies involved convertin...
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Volume 28 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1994
1. What is the most efficient method you have used to distalize upper molars? There was a considerable variety of responses from the clinicians: 36% used headgear as their principal distalization mech...
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Influencing Patient Cooperation
Volume 14 : Number 6 : Page 417 : Jun 1980
All of us have known the thrill of completing a patient who came to us with an extreme malocclusion and then, on the day of band removal, has given us that grateful smile--and you know he feels better...
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Volume 2 : Number 8 : Page 0 : Oct 1968
Mismatch of tooth sizes Q What is recommended in a case in which a mismatch of tooth sizes will not permit an ideal correction of both the posterior intercuspation and the overjet? Should the anterior...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Thermal Archwires and In-Office Computers
Volume 32 : Number 1 : Page 29 : Jan 1998
How often do you use thermally activated nickel titanium archwires, and which brands do you use for alignment, leveling, space closure, and finishing? Eighty-five percent of the respondents used therm...
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Overhead Reduction: Is Bigger Always Better?
Volume 28 : Number 1 : Page 0 : Jan 1994
Businesses all over the world, and especially in the United States, are attempting to downsize, streamline, and reduce the number of their employees and the size of their plants. One company after ano...
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Volume 5 : Number 4 : Page 200 : Apr 1971
Experience with the segmented arch technique in 197 completed Class II division 1 and bimaxillary protrusion cases with overjets up to 17 mm gives me the confidence to tell you that the system is simp...
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Stress Analysis of Plastic Bracket Configurations
Volume 11 : Number 2 : Page 120 : Feb 1977
The use of plastic brackets has greatly improved the esthetic aspect of orthodontic treatment.1,2,3 However, the plastic brackets have been styled after their metal predecessors. Often they are not ab...
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Volume 11 : Number 6 : Page 420 : Jun 1977
Management in business and industry has expended much energy and time in developing models of accountability and systems of performance appraisal for top and middle management. Theorists believe that ...
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Molar Distalization with Repelling Magnets
Volume 25 : Number 10 : Page 0 : Oct 1991
Headgears, space-gaining appliances, and open-coil springs have traditionally been used to move upper molars distally. When such devices are removable appliances, however, they rely heavily on patient...
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Forced Eruption: An Alternative to Extraction or Periodontal Surgery
Volume 26 : Number 3 : Page 0 : Mar 1992
Defects of the tooth structure near the alveolar bone, such as subgingival tooth fracture, cervical caries, endodontic perforation, and internal root resorption, are difficult to restore. Orthodontic ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 28 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1994
A New Look at MotivationNothing so challenges a professional as to learn that a principle once accepted as absolute may no longer have relevance, practicality, or validity. Twenty-five years ago, I fe...
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CASE REPORT
Extraction of a Geminated Central Incisor
Volume 45 : Number 2 : Page 85 : Feb 2011
Abnormalities in tooth size, shape, and structure generally occur during the morphodifferentiation stage of development, although tooth buds can fuse during the histological phase.1-4 Congenital tooth...
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Mini-Implant-Supported Temporary Pontics
Volume 48 : Number 7 : Page 422 : Jul 2014
There are two basic treatment options for patients with missing teeth: space closure or space opening for prosthetic replacement.1-4 Space closure seems advisable in many cases because of a better fun...
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Upper Molar Distalization with Invisalign Treatment Accelerated by Photobiomodulation
Volume 52 : Number 12 : Page 675 : Dec 2018
Drs. Ojima, Dan, Watanabe, and Kumagai demonstrate how a modified OrthoPulse device can be used to accelerate sequential posterior distalization by allowing aligner changes to be made every three days. A case report illustrates the procedure.
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Autotransplantation of Inversely Impacted Central Incisors
Volume 56 : Number 9 : Page 537 : Sep 2022
Autologous transplantation offers several advantages for resolving an inversely impacted maxillary incisor at an early age. Dr. Balut and colleagues demonstrate a case in which orthodontic traction was started three weeks after surgery, using passive self-ligating brackets with light forces.
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CASE REPORT
Management of a Transmigrant Lower Canine without Skeletal Anchorage in a Growing Class II Patient
Volume 57 : Number 9 : Page 537 : Sep 2023
Forced eruption of a transmigrant ectopic canine is performed using a lower lingual holding arch with a cantilever arm. The closed elastic traction is activated distally and labially, away from the roots of the lower incisors, to avoid resorption.
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Volume 34 : Number 7 : Page 409 : Jul 2000
Although composite resins generally have a low incidence of bond failures, they increase the likelihood of plaque accumulation, and thus the risk of demineralization of the surrounding enamel.1-3 Inde...
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