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31 Jan 2017 | Special Report
Since the 2007 Cochrane Review on Class II correction,1 the prevailing catch-cry has been that "you can't grow mandibles". The fallacy of this blithe extrapolation lies in the fact that the main criteria used in the comparison of early and late Class II correction was measurement of overjet (mm) and ANB angle (the cephalometric relationship of the ...
30 Nov 2016 | Special Report
In late November, corporate health care provider Bupa issued a press release announcing a £835 million purchase of leading UK private dental provider Oasis Dental Group. The acquisition allowed Bupa to become a major player in the UK dental market with more than 1800 clinicians in 420 clinics treating more than 2 million customers.1 This centralis...
30 Sep 2016 | Special Report
THE philosophies underpinning traditional orthodontic practice have remained largely unchanged since the profession's beginning. Delay treatment until the permanent dentition; if necessary, create space through extraction; mechanically align teeth into an arbitrary Class I; then add permanent retention.
Even after Graber advised the profession to f...
31 Jul 2016 | Special Report
In the not too distant past, malocclusion was considered to be genetically inevitable and preventive treatment modalities were not considered viable, or profitable. Mechanically straightening the teeth via extractions and braces into an arbitrary Class I, then permanently retaining was considered the optimum treatment method, despite obvious limita...
31 May 2016 | Special Report
Most dental professionals, by now, should be well aware of the rapid changes altering the dental playing field. The market driven changes such as corporatisation of the industry and oversupply of new dental graduates have been more than highlighted in professional publications and despite an increase in the frequency of dental caries, particularly ...
31 Mar 2016 | Special Report
It seems logical that, if the goal of a dental manufacturer is international success, one of the steps towards growing a prosperous company would be to establish a strong presence in the domestic market first. Compared to overseas though, the Australian market for dental products is relatively small and competition from well-known international pla...
31 Jan 2016 | Special Report
For foresighted dental practitioners, indications that the professional landscape is rapidly changing have been obvious for several years. In the July/August 2015 edition of Australasian Dental Practice editor (and publisher) Joseph Allbeury made mention of the merger between Dentsply International and Sirona Dental Systems, two of the world's larg...
31 Jul 2015 | Special Report
During the latter part of the 20th century, tooth decay among Australian children was in rapid decline. In the 1970s when I graduated from Sydney University, dental caries was present in the majority of children and the adult population expected the same edentulous retirement as their parents. Dentists extracted teeth as often as we restored them a...
31 Mar 2015 | Special Report
Two thousand two hundred and one exhibitors participated in the recent International Dental Show, the IDS, in Cologne, Germany. It's an expansive event, unlike any other in the dental profession; the epicentre for every manufacturer on earth to connect with everyone else.
As an Australian reporting on that event, I'm always eager to see just how m...
31 Jul 2013 | Clinical Excellence
More than 100 years ago and before Edward Angle, dentists realised they could move teeth into a more aesthetic position by applying various mechanical devices to the teeth. This in turn caused apposition and deposition of bone in areas where forces were increased or decreased. Teeth could be moved into a more aesthetic position and so the orthodont...
31 Jan 2013 | Spectrum
Myofunctional Research Co. has expanded its MRC Clinics concept with the opening of new centres at 1 Spring Street in Bondi Junction in Sydney and 2/201 Ron Penhaligon Way, Robina on the Gold Coast. MRC Clinics provides early orthodontic treatment without the need for braces and currently has 8 centres in NSW and Queensland, 3 in New Zealand, 11 in...
31 Oct 2012 | Clinical Excellence
Expansion of the jaws has been increasingly performed in orthodontics to achieve better occlusal and maxillary relationship and in doing so, improving oral functions. Maxillary and mandibular expansion has been proposed since Edward Angle to avoid extractions.1 This article presents a novel method to produce dental arch development in the maxilla a...
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