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A Consultant's View of Management Service Organizations
Volume 31 : Number 7 : Page 430 : Jul 1997
There are more than 9,000 practicing orthodontists in this country. There about half a dozen management service organizations. These MSOs have yet to enroll even 5% of the orthodontic population, and ...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 38 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 2004
As I write this, the nation is winding down from a spirited presidential election. No matter which candidate you chose to endorse, you had to endure the harsh accusations and questionable criticisms f...
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BOOK REVIEW
The Alexander Discipline, Vol. 3: Unusual and Difficult Cases
Volume 51 : Number 1 : Page 54 : Jan 2017
Dr. R.G. "Wick" Alexander is well known to JCO readers as a long-time member of our editorial board and a regular contributor. He has spoken practically everywhere orthodontic lectures are given. Furthermore, as a professor at several universities, Dr. Alexander has helped form the diagnostic, treatment-planning, and clinical skills of myriad orthodontic students. His clinical philosophy has attracted a worldwide following under the moniker of the Alexander Discipline, with its concomitant technique and appliance, the Vari-Simplex Discipline.
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Bio-Progressive Therapy, Part 1: The Management Umbrella
Volume 11 : Number 9 : Page 616 : Sep 1977
Bio-Progressive Therapy is not strictly an orthodontic technique but, more importantly, it encompasses a total orthodontic philosophy. Bio-Progressive Therapy accepts as its mission the treatment of t...
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Effective Communication with Clients: Financial Arrangements
Volume 15 : Number 7 : Page 497 : Jul 1981
The practice of orthodontics is viewed as the delivery of a specialized health care. But the practice of orthodontics can also be viewed as the management of a business. Services are rendered and fees...
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Volume 5 : Number 6 : Page 301 : Jun 1971
Part-time wearing of conventional headgear is not the correct way to use this appliance. Yet, relatively few orthodontists are prescribing full-time wear of extraoral appliances. The majority are pres...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 27 : Number 10 : Page 0 : Oct 1993
How Are We Doing?Phoebe Lee Grisham, my maternal grandmother, was a remarkable woman. Widowed in her early 50s, she finished raising a brood of 11 children, took charge of four orphaned grandchildren,...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
A New Paradigm of Facial Analysis
Volume 36 : Number 6 : Page 317 : Jun 2002
Patients derive a myriad of benefits from orthodontic therapy, including enhanced masticatory function, easier access to dental surfaces for better hygiene, and, consequently, reduced incidence of car...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
A New Look at Class II Malocclusion
Volume 16 : Number 9 : Page 571 : Sep 1982
A New Look At Class II MalocclusionA recent article (Angle Orthodontist, July 1981) by Dr. James McNamara should have shaken the orthodontic world. He stated that maxillary skeletal protrusion is not ...
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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 ...
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JCO Interviews Aaron Rubin, JD, on Malpractice
Volume 11 : Number 1 : Page 28 : Jan 1977
Dr. Rubin is an attorney who has written and lectured extensively to dentists on the subject of malpractice. He is a partner in the firm of Fanwick & Rubin, which is a malpractice insurance agent ...
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TECHNIQUE CLINIC
Volume 24 : Number 2 : Page 86 : Feb 1990
The increase in adult orthodontics is resulting in the treatment of many patients with a history of extensive restorative dentistry. A common problem facing the orthodontist is placing a fixed attachm...
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An Embedded Lingual Holding Arch
Volume 27 : Number 7 : Page 0 : Jul 1993
Lower lingual holding arches have a variety of orthodontic uses, including space maintenance,1 anchorage support,2 and lower incisor advancement.3 Accounts of unwanted results are rare, although one a...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
The Limits of Molar Distalization
Volume 53 : Number 5 : Page 257 : May 2019
The distalization of molars has been a tantalizing subject for orthodontists for as long as fixed appliances have been employed. The primary appeal seems to spring from the assumption—valid or not—tha...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 55 : Number 4 : Page 206 : Apr 2021
One of the more comforting aspects of practicing orthodontics is that we see few complications of treatment in comparison with, say, our colleagues in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Surgical complica...
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JCO INTERVIEWS
Drs. S.J. "Jack" Burrow and William R. Proffit on the Efficacy of Self-Ligating Brackets
Volume 47 : Number 7 : Page 413 : Jul 2013
DR. KEIM You have both stated, "The controversy of self-ligating brackets should be over." But the January 2013 issue of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics features a Poi...
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The DigiGraph Work Station, Part 2: Clinical Management
Volume 24 : Number 7 : Page 0 : Jul 1990
Editor's note: Parts 1 and 3 of this series are published in the June and August 1990 issues of JCO.The DigiGraph Work Station (Fig. 23) is a unique device that allows the clinician to perform non-rad...
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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...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Hammers, Nails, and Misdiagnosis
Volume 38 : Number 7 : Page 365 : Jul 2004
The 20th-century psychologist Abraham Harold Maslow is remembered as both the father of contemporary humanistic psychology and the developer of the famous "Hierarchy of Needs", which is almost a catec...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 32 : Number 2 : Page 73 : Feb 1998
You may have noticed that McDonald's reduced the price of the Big Mac from $1.99 to $.55, and that the huge reduction in price didn't work. McDonald's experienced an additional 6% loss in sales. One w...
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