Archive for October, 2010
Morning Meetings Start Your Day Off The Right Way
October 2010
Effective communication keeps a practice running smoothly. When everyone has access to the same information, it increases productivity and promotes staff harmony. On the other hand, miscommunication can wreak havoc on practice operations, leading to high stress and low employee morale. Promoting good communication habits is one of the smartest things an orthodontist can do in his or her practice.
Motivational Interviewing – Are you windy or are you sunshine?
October 2010
What happens between a dentist (or any auxiliary) and an orthodontic patient or prospective patient is shaped by many curious and confounding forces. Confusion between beliefs, actions or words and intent can sometimes be far from what we mean to convey.
The digital era unravels – An Insight into 3-D digital applications in Orthodontics
October 2010
Orthodontists have, for too long, ignored the three dimensional nature of the problem at hand, namely, malocclusion. Although malocclusions are categorized as skeletal, dental or soft tissue variety, and can occur in any of the three dimensions of space (with each potentially capable of affecting the other), all our patient data excepting study models, is two dimensional and lacks completeness – what has been termed as ‘Anatomic truth’.
In Memoriam
October 2010
El Dr. Samir E. Bishara, conocido entre sus estudiantes como Dr. “B” y entre sus amigos como “Sam”, falleció el viernes 8 de Octubre de 2010 a la edad de 74 años, después de perder su batalla contra el linfoma. Samir nació el 31 de Octubre de 1935 en el Cairo, Egipto, hijo de Edward [...]
Remembering Dr. Samir Bishara
October 2010
Dr. Samir E. Bishara, better known to his students as Dr. “B” and to his friends as “Sam,” died on Friday October 8, 2010 at the age of 74, after losing his battle to lymphoma.
Clinical Tips for Fixed Functional Appliances
October 2010
One of the treatments of choice for the correction of class II malocclusion is the fixed functional appliance. In the functional phase of the treatment, the patient is usually asked to position the mandible forward in such a way that the upper and lower midlines are coinciding.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Orthodontic Perspective
October 2010
The obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a common condition that is associated with serious adverse health consequences. Since the first description of this disorder in the medical literature in 1965,2 effective treatments that modify these health risks have emerged.
Smile Designing in Orthodontics
October 2010
The subject of the smile is related to communication and facial expression of an individual’s emotion and is of great interest to orthodontists. Most of the patients seek orthodontic care because of esthetic reasons, that is, the desire to look more attractive by improving their smile. Thus an attractive smile should be the goal at the end of orthodontic treatment. The purpose of this article is to give an up to date knowledge on smile and its implications in clinical orthodontics.
Expired Primary Teeth are a Warning Sign of Impaction; A Case Report
October 2010
Variation in the time of shedding of deciduous teeth and emergence of their permanent successors is common, but significant deviation from the established norms is an alert for a potential impaction.
