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., Suite A Rockwall, TX 75087-3956 (800) 634-2027 E-mail: agriswold@academygportho.com “Most people don’t regret things they did, but rather, things they didn’t do....” I recently read an article in the Chicago Tribune newspaper involving Ron Wayne, 76, who lives on Social Security checks and has an interesting life story. In April of 1976, Wayne helped to launch a tiny computer company in Cupertino, California, called Apple. Wayne designed Apple’s first logo, wrote the Apple I computer manual, and drafted the company’s partnership agree-ment. He owned a 10 percent stake in the company. Today, that would be worth more than $23 billion… if he had held it. He didn’t. Wayne bailed out after 12 days and collected $800. You would guess that Wayne would have long since been consumed down to his fingernails by regret. Not so, he said. “I don’t waste my time getting frustrated about things that didn’t work out”, he told the reporter. “I left Apple for reasons that seemed sound to me at the time. Why should I go back and ‘what if’ myself? If I did, I’d be in a rubber room by now!” Mr. Wayne couldn’t have stated it better. Wallowing in regret produces nothing but more regret. We all pile up regrets in life ----personal as well as professional. The partnership that didn’t work out, the associate position that Advertiser Index Academy of Gp Orthodontics ......21 American Orthodontic Society ..46, 47 ClearCorrect ................................52 DentalBanc ..................................31 Dentaurum ..................................33 Dolphin Imaging Systems ............50 Johns Dental Labs ..................16, 25 Lancer Orthodontics ......................4 Myofunctional Research ................3 6 September/October 2010 JAOS went bad, the location that looked so promising, and the patient who seemed so sincere that we allowed them that line of credit. Some of these will sting. But that’s nothing to fear. It is not fatal, don’t dwell on them. Flush them and move on. Most people don’t regret things they did, but rather, things they didn’t do. Take risks; but not crazy ones. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Make your regrets about passions you dared to pursue....paths you ventured down even though they led to problems. One regret you don’t want to make is missing this year’s Annual Meetings in Texas. This October 28-30, the AOS will be meeting in Houston and the AGpO will be meeting in Dallas. This year’s Annual Meetings will feature over a dozen of the top speakers in orthodontics, assist-ing, practice management and financing as well as a multitude of industry repre-sentatives and vendors. You’ll never regret taking the time to recharge or reconnect with friends and colleagues at one of the top orthodontic meetings in the country.We’ll see you in October. You won’t regret it. Thomas N. Chapman, CAE AOS Executive Director American Orthodontic Society 11884 Greenville Avenue, Suite 112 Dallas, TX 75243 (800) 448-1601 E-mail: tchapman@orthodontics.com 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 Ordont Ortho Labs ........................9 Ortho Organizers ....................2, 39 Ortho2 ........................................43 Orthodontic Technologies, Inc. ....10 OrthoPlusSeminars ......................17 RMO............................................11 Vector Dental Corporation ..........42 WildSmiles Brackets......................51 EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Azita Anissi, DDS..............................AOS Robert Allen, DDS..........................AGpO Ron Austin, DDS............................AGpO Chris Baker, RN, DMD......................AOS Eugene Boone, DDS.......................AGpO Felecia Burridge, DDS ....................AGpO Marc Dandois, DDS .......................AGpO Fred Der, DDS................................AGpO Drew Ellenwood, DDS...................AGpO Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS .................AOS Joe Fallin, DDS...............................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD..............AOS Sam Gutovitz, DDS........................AGpO Arturo Gutierrez, DDS ......................AOS Joe Haack, DDS.................................AOS Roy Holexa, DDS...........................AGpO David W. Jackson, DDS ....................AOS Thomas Jacobson, DDS .................AGpO Kyle McCrea, DDS .........................AGpO Michael Newman, DDS ....................AOS Mitchell S. Parker, DDS.....................AOS Leslie R. Penley, DDS.....................AGpO Kurt Raack, DDS ............................AGpO Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS............AOS Robert Shirley, DDS.......................AGpO Barry Sockel, DDS..........................AGpO Juan J. Solano, DDS ..........................AOS Kurt Stodola, DDS..........................AGpO David Thorfinnson, DDS..................AOS Walter Tippen, DDS.......................AGpO Helen B. Tran, DDS........................AGpO Michael Wilkerson, DDS ...............AGpO William Wyatt, Sr., DDS...................AOS
Journal of the American Orthodontic Society September-October 2010: Page 6
