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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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OVERVIEW
Evidence-Based Considerations for Determining Appointment Intervals
Volume 45 : Number 7 : Page 379 : Jul 2011
(Editor's Note: In this quarterly column, JCO provides an overview of a clinical topic of interest to orthodontists. Contributions and suggestions for future subjects are welcome.) A century ago, when...
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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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Bracket Positioning for Smile Arc Protection
Volume 51 : Number 3 : Page 142 : Mar 2017
Ackerman recently wrote about disruptive orthodontic technology with the view that “orthodontics is the art of the possible” rather than “the science of the improbable”.1 According to him, “Nothing in...
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MANAGEMENT & MARKETING
Patient Enrollment: Initial Call to Appliance Placement
Volume 25 : Number 8 : Page 0 : Aug 1991
The basic premise of this column is that there are orthodontists throughout the world who are not only adept clinicians, but also innovative and knowledgeable enough about management and marketing to ...
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Borderline Extraction Cases, Part V: Panel Discussion
Volume 5 : Number 11 : Page 609 : Nov 1971
This is the final part of the University of Pennsylvania Seminar Series. This part will appear in two installments and conclude in the December issue. DR. ACKERMAN: Dr. Fogel, if one makes a wrong dec...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Volume 37 : Number 7 : Page 349 : Jul 2003
One of the lessons I remember most vividly from my dental school years, more than a quarter of a century ago, was the one about centric relation. As I demonstrated my understanding of the concept to o...
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A Clinical Comparison of LED and Halogen Curing Units
Volume 38 : Number 7 : Page 385 : Jul 2004
Light-cured adhesives, introduced by Newman in 1964,1 are now the most popular means of bonding orthodontic brackets. These composite resins contain camphorquinones2--photoiniators that, when activate...
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
Drawing the Line on Antibiotics
Volume 53 : Number 11 : Page 633 : Nov 2019
The editor of any clinical or scientific journal is routinely barraged by news releases that may or may not be relevant to the theme of the publication. I get a substantial number of announcements reg...
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