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ALIGNER CORNER
Clear Aligner Treatment Education in Dental Schools in the United States and Canada
Volume 55 : Number 11 : Page 684 : Nov 2021
An online survey by Drs. Park, Duong, Thayer, and Park investigates the level of predoctoral instruction in aligner therapy at North American dental schools. Clinical techniques and diagnostic tools taught in such programs are tabulated, and obstacles to curricular expansion are discussed.
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Volume 22 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 1988
Orthodontists enjoy a high level of patient appreciation, partly because their results are almost always an esthetic improvement. Still, many orthodontists finish treatment short of the finest possibl...
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Treatment Timing Onset or Onslaught?
Volume 5 : Number 4 : Page 191 : Apr 1971
Too often, discussions of treatment timing become debates about early treatment vs. late treatment when in truth, neither of these procedures exist as entities. We should be much ahead if we would ins...
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Volume 5 : Number 7 : Page 394 : Jul 1971
I have been experimenting with various adhesives to bond plastic brackets directly to teeth. While most advocates of this concept have emphasized the seemingly obvious time-saving advantages of bondin...
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Use of Spooled Nickel Titanium Wires as Initial Archwires
Volume 28 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1994
Comprehensive orthodontic treatment often begins with a flexible archwire engaged in most of the brackets in each arch. Although this wire must be gentle, it is required to reduce excess curve of Spee...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 58 : Number 11 : Page 657 : Nov 2024
“When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras,” is a popular clinical aphorism coined in the 1940s by Dr. Theodore Woodward, a renowned researcher and chairman at the University of Maryland Me...
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Volume 42 : Number 9 : Page 0 : Sep 2008
Last year, a JCO Readers' Corner found that only 25% of a small sample of respondents were currently using miniscrews in their practices, and many fewer were placing the screws themselves.1 By now, ho...
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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
Volume 37 : Number 12 : Page 659 : Dec 2003
Most orthodontists envision spending their latter years in some form of retirement, with a wide range of wonderful choices based on financial independence. In this month's column, Dr. Jerry Clark pres...
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P/A CLINIC Dental Insurance Letter
Volume 6 : Number 3 : Page 160 : Mar 1972
Dental insurance which includes benefits for orthodontic treatment is growing. Parents of patients with this coverage will often misunderstand the nature of their contract and the amount of their cove...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 20 : Number 6 : Page 0 : Jun 1986
It takes about 25 to 30 years before a scientific theory becomes accepted. Paul Ehrlich developed the theory of chemotherapy for fighting infections between 1907 and 1910, but it was 25 years later wh...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scanners
Volume 45 : Number 2 : Page 93 : Feb 2011
(Editor's Note: The Readers Corner is a quarterly feature of JCO in which orthodontists share their experiences and opinions about treatment and practice management. Pairs of questions are mailed peri...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 20 : Number 11 : Page 0 : Nov 1986
How Does Your Garden Grow? I recently received an advertisement in the mail that, at first, I assumed to be a metaphoric put-on because it was so applicable to orthodontic practice. The ad had a title...
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Volume 10 : Number 11 : Page 789 : Nov 1976
Orthodontic treatment has lacked a correlation between the mechanics of most techniques and the anatomical environment within which these techniques operate. We tend to have a diagrammatic concept of ...
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Volume 28 : Number 12 : Page 0 : Dec 1994
In the fall of 1993, the Orthodontic Management Group surveyed all the residents of graduate orthodontic programs in the United States to determine their future plans. OMG's intention was to assist th...
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THE READERS' CORNER
Management Service Organizations
Volume 31 : Number 7 : Page 437 : Jul 1997
Do you have an arrangement with a management service organization? Although 25% of the respondents said they had been approached individually by an MSO (beyond a mass mailing), only 3% had actually si...
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THE CUTTING EDGE
Volume 55 : Number 6 : Page 361 : Jun 2021
Drs. Lewit Borohovitz, Abraham, and Redmond describe the use of artificial intelligence to segment individual teeth from a cone-beam computed tomography scan. Two cases show how the acquired diagnostic information can have a significant effect on orthodontic treatment planning.
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 39 : Number 8 : Page 453 : Aug 2005
I recently did a consultation for an interesting case that left me thinking. The patient was an attractive young lady, mid-30s, blonde hair, blue eyes, tall, slender. She had a Class II, division 2 su...
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JCO Interviews Dr. C. Norman Shealy on Holistic Health, Part 2
Volume 15 : Number 9 : Page 615 : Sep 1981
DR. GOTTLIEB I'd like to ask you now about the orthodontist's work environment. For example, in recent years dentists have sought to minimize movement through time and motion approaches. Most dentists...
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Volume 22 : Number 2 : Page 0 : Feb 1988
Topics are incisor position and staff hiring.1. If your guide in treatment is the position of the upper or lower incisors, how do you determine that position? If not the position of the incisors, what...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 43 : Number 10 : Page 0 : Oct 2009
The Encarta online dictionary defines a paradigm shift as "a radical change in somebodys basic assumptions about or approach to something". Our specialty is indeed in the midst of several paradigm shi...
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