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1061.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 51 : Number 10 : Page 637 : Oct 2017
Although it is unlikely that the extraction debate will ever be completely resolved, the vast majority of practicing orthodontists currently accept that extractions are a necessary part of our treatme...
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Volume 7 : Number 6 : Page 350 : Jun 1973
There are two kinds of shoppers in orthodontics. One kind is shopping for a fee and the other for a diagnosis. Many of us have developed a resentment against both types. We sometimes behave as if ther...
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Management Skills Linked to the Profitability of Large Practices
Volume 26 : Number 5 : Page 0 : May 1992
Countless studies demonstrate that entrepreneurs need management skills if their businesses are to thrive. Any professional who continues to run a large practice like a small business is doomed to fai...
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Volume 2 : Number 5 : Page 239 : May 1968
A sliding jig as suggested by Salzmann (Salzmann, J. A.: Practice of Orthodontics, Vol 2, p 904, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) has proved most helpful in certain light wire treatments to convey ...
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CLINICAL AID
Volume 17 : Number 8 : Page 550 : Aug 1983
The combination treatment card is an 11"X17" card, folded to 8%"X11". The two inside pages are a chart for the usual treatment visit information. A 5"X8" acquaintance card is affixed to the top of t...
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CLINICAL AID
Volume 24 : Number 6 : Page 0 : Jun 1990
Plastic impression trays (A) originally designed for fixed prostheses have also proven useful in orthodontics. In addition to providing good impressions of the teeth and soft tissues (B), they can be ...
1067.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 49 : Number 12 : Page 741 : Dec 2015
In this issue of JCO, we present the third and final installment of our series on the 2015 JCO Orthodontic Practice Study. It seems fitting, as I write this during the holiday season, to proclaim some glad tidings. The good news is a marked rise in the percentages of practices reporting increases in both case starts and gross income compared to the previous year - even higher than respondents to the 2013 Study had predicted, reaching a level of growth we have not seen since the 2001 Study.
1068.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 22 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1988
The Numbers GameIn everyday life, we experience a tyranny of numbers that have been arbitrarily set. Six is the right age to enter the first grade, 16 is the right age to get a driver's license, 18 or...
1069.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 18 : Number 7 : Page 453 : Jul 1984
A Clear and Present Danger It is hard to be an optimist these days. It is easy to be a pessimist, and there are indications that the majority of orthodontists are not confident about their ability to ...
1070.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 50 : Number 12 : Page 715 : Dec 2016
Though I never studied the Begg technique in great detail, a number of my friends and colleagues are Begg devotees. Like the adherents of other "name" techniques - Tweed, Roth, Andrews, and so on - th...
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Volume 21 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 1987
Overcoming prospective patients' resistance to fees is often a matter of accommodating to an individual's financial limitations. This is becoming more difficult for patients and for orthodontists in d...
1072.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 24 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1990
Segmenting a PracticeAn article entitled "Service Companies: Focus or Falter" in the July/August 1989 issue of Harvard Business Review makes a point that the most successful service companies have a s...
1073.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 35 : Number 1 : Page 9 : Jan 2001
The history of lingual orthodontic treatment in the United States has not been auspicious. Although there was a good deal of interest when lingual brackets and appliance systems were first introduced,...
1074.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 48 : Number 12 : Page 741 : Dec 2014
It is hard to imagine an orthodontic topic that has generated more controversy or more heated debate than that of extractions. Years ago, when I was practicing general dentistry in a remote corner of ...
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Volume 6 : Number 1 : Page 9 : Jan 1972
Visiting the office of Lyman Wagers and Russell Greer in Lexington, Kentucky (see page 16) was an eye-opener to someone who comes from a state in which expansion of the duties of auxiliary dental pers...
1076.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 52 : Number 1 : Page 8 : Jan 2018
My greatest joy in life is being a grandparent. I have seven grandchildren, with another on the way, and—to use an old phrase—they are the lights of my life. Unfortunately, when my children grew up, t...
1077.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Is There a Functional Appliance in Your Future?
Volume 16 : Number 1 : Page 9 : Jan 1982
Is There a Functional Appliance in Your Future?Will 1982 be the year of the functional appliances? Considering the relatively small amount of hard data that has been available with regard to the effic...
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Simplified Record Keeping for Orthotic Therapy
Volume 26 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1992
One of the most neglected record-keeping chores in orthodontics is the explanation of orthotic treatment, followed by full documentation of any clinical signs and patient symptoms exhibited during tre...
1079.
THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 18 : Number 8 : Page 529 : Aug 1984
Room at the Top At the bottom of any profession is that small number of practitioners who are perceived by their peers to have failed to deliver acceptable standards of care. Their failure is rarely c...
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Laboratory and Clinical Evaluation of a Self-Etching Primer
Volume 35 : Number 1 : Page 42 : Jan 2001
Revolutionary advances in adhesive chemistry are changing the process of orthodontic bonding. Prompt L-Pop*, a self-etching primer that combines etchant and primer in one chemical compound, was the f...
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