EDITOR’S WELCOME Greg Cannizzo, DDS, CDE, JAOS Editor 3617 Municipal Drive, McHenry, IL 60050 Phone: (815) 344-2282 • Fax: (815) 344-5815 Email: drgrc@joltmail.com ASSOCIATION STAFF Adam Griswold AGpO Executive Director Academy of Gp Orthodontics 509 E. Boydston St. Rockwall, TX 75087-3956 (800) 634-2027 E-mail: agriswold@academygportho.com Barbara Zuniga AOS Executive Director American Orthodontic Society 11884 Greenville Avenue, Suite 112 Dallas, TX 75243 (972) 234-4000 E-mail: BZuniga@orthodontics.com Tom Chapman AOS Contributor E-mail: TChapman@orthodontics.com It’s Time To Scrape Off The Barnacles Barnacles are small mollusks that attach themselves to large ships. One barnacle doesn’t make any difference to how a ship moves, neither does two. I’m not sure what the tipping point is, but at some stage, there are so many barnacles attached to a vessel that they start to have a negative impact on the forward movement of the ship. Seaweed and other debris starts to get caught on the barnacles that have attached themselves to the ship’s hull and the ship begins to not move with as much efficiency as it used to. Once this happens, than it’s time for the owner of the ship to have the barnacles scraped from the hull. The same is true for our prac-tices and us as well. Over the last year in a half, the pandemic has led to many starts, stops and shut downs to dental prac-tices. This can make it tough to keep moving forward with a full head of steam and “barnacles” can then start attaching themselves to our staff, our office routine and us. There are things that can encroach upon our ability to meet our goals with our office and life. They may be small, and one or two may not have much of an impact, if any. But, over time, if we don’t deal with them, we will be dramatically slowed down in our aims and movement, and perhaps we may even sink. What could these “barnacles” be for us? They could be falling off on our continuing education with our orthodontic practice. They could be that your practice is not operating at full potential. They could be not continuing or pausing our journey toward reaching fellowship or diplomate status goals. They could be that we haven’t brushed up on our communication skills with our patients and staff. They could be that we have neglected to keep pace with new technology that is evolving and changing dentistry and orthodontics. Most of the above elements build up over time and will rarely bring us to an immediate halt. But they will, eventually. So, it’s time to scrape the Barnacles from the hull of your prac-tice so they stop slowing you down and holding you back. The best way to accomplish this is to sign up for one of the many advanced courses offered by our Associations. In addi-tion, attending an annual meeting will give you the opportunity to listen and participate in presenta-tions full of pearls that can help bring your practice to its full poten-tial and lectures that will help with brushing up on communication and administrative skills. The vendors and industry representatives who exhibit at the meeting will work with you to keep pace with new technology that is evolving. Reading through this issue of the Journal , you will be exposed to articles on diag-nosis, temporomandibular disorders and new technology. All of these can assist you in scrapping off those “barnacles” that have built up. Take the time to “drydock” and clean up your ship. EDITORIAL STAFF Greg Cannizzo, DDS ....................... AGpO Editor Jordan Balvich, DMD ........................ AOS Co-Editor Jim Mcllwain, DDS, MSD .................. AOS Co-Editor Lisa A. Wright ......................... AOS/AGpO Managing Editor Email: lisa@wrightgrp.com EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Ron Austin, DDS...................................AGpO Chris Baker, RN, DMD .............................AOS Kauser Bari, DDS ...................................AGpO Ronald Cass, DDS .................................AGpO Jeff Dahm, DDS........................................AOS Joe Drinkwater, DDS .............................AGpO Scott Earp, DDS.....................................AGpO Elsa Echeverri, DDS..................................AOS Drew Ellenwood, DDS ..........................AGpO Ken Ellis, DDS ..........................................AOS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS.........................AOS Twana Farley-Duncan, DDS.....................AOS Joe Fallin, DDS ......................................AGpO Majid Feshresti, DDS.............................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD .....................AOS Roy Holexa, DDS ..................................AGpO Tam Issa-Abbas, DDS ............................AGpO Thomas Jacobsen, DDS.........................AGpO Brian Machart, DDS..............................AGpO Sherman Menser, DDS..........................AGpO Randy Newby, DDS..................................AOS Minh-Khol Nguyen, DDS .....................AGpO Humberto Nunez-Gil, DMD .................AGpO Ann Mary Orr, DDS .................................AOS Raphael Santore, DDS...........................AGpO Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS ...................AOS Robert Shirley, DDS ..............................AGpO Kimberly Suter, DDS ................................AOS Susan Tiede, DDS .....................................AOS Walter Tippen, DDS ..............................AGpO Robert Tippin, DDS..................................AOS Saskia Vaughn, DDS.................................AOS Bradford R. Williams, DDS ......................AOS Paul L. Winborn, DDS .............................AOS William Wyatt, Sr., DDS ..........................AOS ADVERTISER INDEX Academy of Gp Orthodontics ..........517 American Orthodontic Society ..........50 Dolphin Imaging Systems ..................21 Henry Schein Orthodontics ..................................7 Ortho Arch ....................................2, 52 4 Fall 2021 JAOS
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