Carriere Motion & MEAW – Birds of a Feather

The last couple weeks have been more interesting than usual. I attended the SAO in New Orleans – the first time I’d been to an AAO constituency meeting in a while – and was shocked b...

Orthodontist with $1,000,000.00 in Student Debt

Utah Orthodontist, Dr. Mike Meru was featured yesterday in The Wall Street Journal for his outlier status of being one of 101 people in the US with a seven-figure student debt. I find the article int...

Protecting the Public?

The last time organized dentistry and dental boards tried to “protect the public” they warned of the dangers of tooth whitening done outside the office of a licensed dentist. Of course there was n...

Better is Better… But Better Can Still Suck

So this popped up on my FB thread. It's an ad from the Australian Society of Orthodontists and it do......

R.I.P

There is no denying it. The profession is dying. The world is changing and the rate of change is increasing all the time. I was in KC Friday talking to a great group of orthodontists and Dr. Clarence ...

UFOs Are Afraid Of Cell Phone Cameras

When I was a kid in the 1970s, UFOs were all the rage. Sightings occurred regularly and everyone had a theory as to what the visitors wanted and how they would either elevate or destroy humanity. So w...