10 Ways to Significantly Reduce Treatment Time
Why is the average orthodontic case over 20 months? Why does the average mature practice have such a high percentage of patients overtime? I know you want to point to those outlier, difficult cases bu...
The Pragmatic Orthodontist Elite
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Easy Way To Adjust Torque – Upper Laterals
I have to do this regularly and today we had a chance to video it. Hope this helps....
Tips for Placing Separators Between Teeth with REALLY Tight Contacts
Had a tough one today that the assistants couldn’t handle. Luckily I remembered to video how we did it....
Case Acceptance Tracking
By Charlene White Case acceptance tracking is the foundation to achieving high production in the orthodontic practice. I find many practices are unaware of how powerful an effective recall system can ...
Finite Work, Excess Time, Infinite Possibilities
What we do is easy. Or at least it should be. Hell, it should even be fun for us and for our patients and for our team! But as with anything, perspective and attitude are everything. Tired or running ...
Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I’m sixty-four?
By Marc Bernard Ackerman, DMD, MBA I am the last person that you would expect to hear breaking orthodontic news from. In fact, if I am the first person to hear about something, it probably isn’t th...
Bond Video 2
So I think we finally got it right. This video starts with isolation and ends with light curing. Doing complete bonds in less than 15 minutes is absolutely possible – seeing is believing. Show y...
13 Minute Bond VIDEO
I posted a really crappy two-part video of us doing a bond on Ortho101 a couple years ago. I took the time to video our bond process because people were convinced we couldn’t put braces on as fa...