How To Tell If A Patient Is Wearing Elastics

Here are a few tricks to make you feel more confident about assessing the compliance level you are getting from individual patients. Creating an atmosphere in which we get good compliance in most cas...

Don’t Miss It- Orthodontic World Congress 2016

Lots of docs are asking about how we train train TCs, how our managers train chair side staff and how we set up and implement systems. Well here’s your chance to get those details and more in pe...

Class II Correctors… No Thanks

I know the knee jerk reaction when you aren’t getting results and the patient says they are wearing elastics is to just use a class II corrector because “they don’t require complianc...

What’s the Greatest Innovation in Orthodontics in the Last 20 Years?

Aligners? Maybe – not my cup of tea, but maybe. Class II correctors? No way! NiTi Wires? Well, it’s been a bit longer than 20 years… Straightwire appliances? Again, more than 20 years since intr...

Checklist For Ortho Practice Evaluation**

Having bought one or two practices and learned many, many tough lessons, I thought I would share a few of them here. Read this as a checklist of things to examine before, during and even after buying ...