POLITICS & OPINION USA
Jul 12, 2010 | USAHas the ‘golden-age’ of orthodontics left the building?There once was a time when an orthodontist was required to learn how pinch-lapping bands, spot-welding brackets, bend loops, hooks and first-, second- and third-order bends in wires as well as various auxiliary appliances work. Diagnosis included drawing our own cephalometric X-rays and trimming our own diagnostic casts — putting the “plaster-on-the-table” as the saying goes. Read more
Jul 12, 2010 | USAThe new patient experienceCase presentation begins with the new patient phone call. Many ortho practices don’t realize that. When evaluating practice systems for new clients, Levin Group consultants are shocked at the number of potential patients/parents who call but never schedule. Every new patient phone call is another opportunity to provide exceptional orthodontic care, increase production and grow the practice. Read more
Jun 9, 2010 | USAWhat makes an orthodontist educated?An orthodontic education often requires rote learning. Dentists, for whom wholeness is so uniquely important, are almost distinctively un-whole, a remediable consequence of their training. Perhaps dentistry attracts individualists or encourages them to become individual in nature. Memory objectionably insists that even when the learning was without bias and restricted to a certain workload without prejudice, it was simply more esoteric in comparison to other brain functions. Read more
Apr 16, 2010 | USAWhy orthodontists should be holisticOrthodontics is holistic dentistry. Surely that is correct. We, as prudent orthodontists, do not just treat a malocclusion; we treat a human being who happens to have a malocclusion. This is a mind-body-spirit unity, and orthodontists are unique among professionals in this respect. Read more
Apr 15, 2010 | USAMystery and controversy are directly proportionalThe orthodontic tradition is no different and has seen a familiar quarrel rumbling for more than a century. In broad terms, two faculties of thought have evolved. Read more
Mar 9, 2010 | USASpecializing, sub-specializing and integratingWell, another year has come and gone, but it will not be forgotten. Our country is climbing out of a recession the likes of which has never been encountered at any one moment in time, and on so many fronts. We were hit with a wake-up call, facing one new issue after another, from global warming to the downward spiraling economy and stock market, to the energy and gas crisis, to the decline and freezing of the housing market, and now to the rise in unemployment. Read more |
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