Volume 10, Issue 4 Features 26 Wealth Building Strategies: A Practitioner’s Guide to a Comfortable Retirement By Jeffrey H. Ahlin, DDS, Jonathan Albano, CFP, and Mark Palmerino, Senior Financial Consultant 32 The Bimler Elite Cephalometric Analysis: A Valuable Diagnostic Tool for Skeletal Malocclusions By J. Wellington (Skip) Truitt, BS, DDS and Livier Carreon-Truitt, DDS, MS 38 CAD’s Nonextraction Philosophy: Part 2 By Raphael Greenfield, DDS, MScD 50 Improving Orthodontic Case Acceptance By Marla Merritt, OrthoBanc, LLC, Director of Sales and Marketing Departments 8 Ortho Industry News 12 Orthobites: Idealism vs. Realism By David W. Jackson, DDS, FAGD, IBO 18 Research Article: Nasal Airway Patency By Jorge Landa, DMD, Alfred Rich, DMD, and Matthew Finkelman, PhD 52 AGpO Membership News 54 AOS Membership News 2010 Buyer’s Guide 56 A Practitioner’s Guide For Orthodontic Products & Services This peer-reviewed journal is published as the official publication of the American Orthodontic Society and the Academy of Gp Orthodontics. www.orthodontics.com July/August 2010 5 38 32 26 18 CONTENTS JAOS JULY/AUGUST 2010