Volume 14, Issue 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 24 36 16 FEATURES 28 DEPARTMENTS 8 Ortho Industry News 10 Orthobites 42 AGpO Membership News 44 AOS Membership News On the cover: Heber Simmons Jr. DDS, MS graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry in Memphis, Tennessee. After graduation, he served as a dentist in the U.S. Army at Fort Knox Kentucky for three years. At the conclusion of his service he returned to the UT Pediatric Dentistry Residency Program in Memphis to earn his Master of Pediatric Dentistry degree. In 1962 Dr. Simmons and his family moved to Jackson Mississippi where he opened up his current practice of Pediatric Dentistry. In 1970 he was awarded the first pediatric dentistry speciality license in Mississippi with the state recognition of different Dental specialities. He is a past President of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and a Congressional liaison since 1997. In 1994 he was awarded the AAPD Distinguish Service Award and in 2011 he was awarded the AAPD Ann Paige Griffin Humanitarian Award. 16 Case Study: Ortho Management of Special Needs Patients: Treating Open Bite, Anterior and Posterior Crossbite and Compromised Dentition 24 Six Keys to Early Mixed Dentition Class II Correction: A Quantified Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment 28 The Value of Early Treatment: Pediatric Dentists Share Personal Experience of Treating Young Children and Reducing Orofacial Deformities 36 Correcting Maxillary First Molars: From Ectopic Eruption to Mesial Drift This peer-reviewed journal is published as the official publication of the American Orthodontic Society and the Academy of Gp Orthodontics. www.orthodontics.com Spring 2014 5
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