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Dr. Colin Gibson presents a case that previously would need fixed-appliance therapy A 32-year-old female presented with Class I impinging deep bite and moderate to severe crowding. The crowding existed in the maxillary and mandibular anterior segments and was the cause of a maxillary anterior occlusal cant that bothered the patient esthetically (Figures 1-9). Due to […]

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Drs. Colin M. Webb and Donald J. Rinchuse delve into functional occlusal schemes Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to survey orthodontists to investigate if and why they preferred certain functional occlusal schemes. Methods:   An email invitation from the American Association of Orthodontists, AAO Partners in Education, was sent to a random

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Drs. Jay V. Patel, Harold Slutsky, Jeffrey Godel, Jie Yang, and James J. Sciote study the necessity of lateral cephalograms for orthodontic diagnosis Abstract Introduction:  There remains a discord among orthodontists regarding the usefulness of a lateral cephalogram radiograph as a part of diagnostic records for treatment planning. Today, orthodontists take diagnostic lateral cephalograms largely

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Drs. Giorgio Fiorelli and Birte Melsen When I interviewed Drs. Melsen and Fiorelli 17 years ago upon the  publication of the 1st edition of Biomechanics in Orthodontics, I asked them what they intended as an encore to their epoch-making publication that used a CD-ROM with computer hypertexts and multimedia resources. They promised to make periodic

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