ORTHO INDUSTRY NEWS Ortho Lab Founder Leaves Legacy Peter R. Breads, founder and former chief executive officer of Great Lakes Orthodontics Ltd., died in January after a lengthy illness. He was 75. He enlisted in the Navy in 1956 and, after attaining the first-ever perfect score in the Navy’s manual dexterity test, he studied in the Navy’s prestigious dental technology school in Bethesda, MD. After leav-ing the Navy, he moved to Angola, where his widowed mother was living, and worked in animal research at the VA Medical Center in Buffalo and then as a technical assistant to orthodontists Dr. Carl F. Gugino and Dr. Dominic A. Colarusso. He opened a PRB Orthodontic Laboratory in Buffalo in 1965, making appliances and study models for local orthodontists. Gugino gave him support to create Great Lakes Orthodontics in 1967 and it became one of the largest orthodontic laboratories in the nation. Now headquartered in the Town of Tonawanda, it became an employee-owned company after he retired in 1990. Considered one of the leading experts in his field, Mr. Breads invented several orthodontic devices and lectured nationally and internationally on orthodontic technology. He will be missed. OrthoMetrics Has New Name and Look GET PUBLISHED! Call for Authors The editorial board of JAOS is interested in reviewing case studies, educational articles and industry insights from its members. Arti-cles can be about orthodontics for children and adults, research reports, technique papers, tips, suggestions, book reviews, practice management, and more. Papers submitted for consideration for publi-cation in JAOS will be peer-reviewed, and will be subject to editing for spacing and clarity. Article length not to exceed 4,000 words. For more information, download JAOS Author Guidelines at www.orthodontics.com/assets/images/pdfs/aos_ journal2012_jaos_author_guidelines.pdf. Recent concerns about possible marketplace confusion with other similarly named companies have led OrthoMetrics to change their name and their look. OrthoMetrics is now Gaidge. Dedication to help doctors fine tune their practice is what Gaidge is all about. The Gaidge logo was designed to be reminiscent of a tachometer you might see on the dashboard of a high-performance vehicle with the needle in the opti-mal zone. A true “aid” to any prac-tice, Gaidge provides the visual instrument to help you monitor performance, spot trends and adjust your speed. Gaidge is an essential practice performance analysis tool for doctors who understand that you can only improve your position by first knowing where you stand. Gaidge provides the insight needed to make informed, strate-gic decisions without complicated, manual, time-consuming processes so you can accelerate your performance. Gaidge recently completed their integration with Dolphin Manage-ment software. Dolphin users are now on board with Gaidge and their data is included in Gaidge’s regional and national comparison statistics. The Gaidge platform is now collecting data from OrthoTrac version 11.3 or greater and Dolphin Management version 5.0 or greater. Regional and national comparison information from Gaidge users on these platforms can only be found on the Gaidge system. Other Integrations are coming soon. 8 March/April 2013 JAOS
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