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Soft skills for new technologies can create confidence for team members and patients

JoAn Majors, RDA, CSP, shows how communication leads to higher value and acceptance of care Today’s technology onslaught can be overwhelming to learn and implement. It’s not just the acceptance of the technology and what it can provide the clinician; it’s always how we will get trained, who will “mother” the new technology in our […]

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To chew gum with orthodontics or NOT to chew gum with orthodontics? Chewing gum with orthodontics has been debated for years! First, let us talk about why our patients are in orthodontics? Optimal restorative outcome Esthetics Correcting occlusal trauma Old theories: Chewing gum bends wires … Chewing gum knocks off brackets … Chewing gum breaks

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Severe crowding with a transverse skeletal discrepancy impacting self-esteem

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Editor’s intro: Dr. Antonino Secchi illustrates how orthodontists are improving smiles and also impacting self esteem. Dr. Antonino Secchi illustrates his two-phase treatment plan A few years ago I had the opportunity to treat a little girl with a rather big self-confidence problem mainly due to her smile. We always praise our specialty for changing

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“Peg-shaped” maxillary lateral incisors and orthodontics

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Based on the meta-analysis by Hua, et al., in 2013,1 the prevalence of peg-shaped maxillary permanent lateral incisors (Figures 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2) varies by race, population type, and gender. Overall, the prevalence of peg-shaped maxillary permanent lateral incisors is 1.8%. It is highest in the Mongoloid (3.4%) race. The prevalence in an orthodontic population is 2.7%. Women are 1.35 times more likely than men to have peg-shaped maxillary lateral incisors. Although the prevalence is the same for unilateral and bilateral peg-shaped lateral incisors, the left side is twice as common as the right side.1

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