White Coat Syndrome

Online, in lecture halls and in print, there are fanatical devotees of evidence based orthodontics whose shrill voices lament the absence of science in our profession. For proof and for comedic relief...

You’re Asking the Wrong Questions

I get survey requests from the AAO regularly and I like to take them to see what residents, and thus their faculty, think is important. It also gives insight into what the people handing out grants ar...

Dis-Belief

Marc Ackerman, DMD, MBA We have all had different experiences in life that shape our mental model of the world around us.   Although mental models give us a sense of stability in a world of continuo...

The American Orthodontic Dream: A Cautionary Tale

Below is a FB messenger convo I’ve had over the course of the last week. As I’ve said before this kind of thing is much more common than orthodontists and residents believe and it’s ...