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 Nate Porter AOS Executive Director American Orthodontic Society 2451 West Grapevine Mills Circle Suite 510 Grapevine, TX 76051 E-mail: support@orthodontics.com Tom Chapman AOS Contributor E-mail: TChapman@orthodontics.com The Circle of Life & Your Orthodontic Education Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. The chase begins as the lion sets its sights on a chosen gazelle, springing forward in a burst of raw energy. The gazelle sensing danger, leaps into action, its slender limbs propelling it across the plains in a desperate bid for escape. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle…when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. For the lion, every hunt is a test of skill, strategy and strength. The gazelle in turn relies on its swiftness and endurance. Whether you choose to be a gazelle or a lion is of no consequence, with the rising of the sun, you must run to stay competitive and survive. In order to stay competitive so that you can outrun that “lion” and survive and thrive, you need to keep your practice and skills in shape. With your practices orthodontic skills, staying fit involves making sure you keep up-to-date on the newest techniques and products available to you. Both the AOS and the AGpO as well as this Journal are here to help keep you at the front of the pack of gazelles outrunning all the lions. Make it a point to check out the many continuing educational opportunities that are available throughout the year to help you fine tune or expand your orthodon-tic knowledge and treatment. Keep-ing all the gazelles in your office in top shape can be addressed with the orthodontic assistant courses held by both the AOS and AGpO. These courses will give your chairside dental assistant a better understanding of orthodontics and a chance to help make them an integral part of your office’s orthodontic treatment. In addition, the courses offered online and in-person involving aligners, early treatment and adjunctive orthodon-tic services will bring you to the next level. Make sure to take a course at the new AOS Event Center in Grapevine, TX. This new state-of-the-art teaching venue will be featuring so many opportunities to keep you ahead of the lions. But if there is a three-day event you do not want to miss, it has to be the AOS and AGpO Annual Meetings. Only at these two meet-ings will you be able to hear so many of the top lectures in Gp and Pediatric orthodontics, as well as have the opportunity to be able to talk to and meet with dozens of industry partners and vendors who can keep you up-to-date on what products are new, more efficient and time-saving. So, start putting together your continuing educa-tion calendar for the rest of this year and 2024. As the saying goes, it is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do and then do your best. We are committed to helping you with your orthodontic continu-ing education. Choose from one of the many opportunities available to learn what to do to stay at the front of the pack and do your best! EDITORIAL STAFF Greg Cannizzo, DDS ............. AGpO/AOS Editor Jordan Balvich, DMD ........................ AOS Co-Editor Jim Mcllwain, DDS, MSD .................. AOS Co-Editor Lisa A. Wright ......................... AOS/AGpO Managing Editor Email: jaos@wrightgrp.com EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Robert Allen, DDS.................................AGpO Ron Austin, DDS...................................AGpO Chris Baker, RN, DMD .............................AOS Kauser Bari, DDS ...................................AGpO Jeff Dahm, DDS........................................AOS Fred Der, DDS .......................................AGpO Elsa Echeverri, DDS..................................AOS Drew Ellenwood, DDS ..........................AGpO Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS.........................AOS Twana Farley-Duncan, DDS.....................AOS Majid Feshresti, DDS.............................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD .....................AOS Thomas Jacobsen, DDS.........................AGpO Gregory T. Jeneary, DDS ..........................AOS Amanda Larsh, DMD ............................AGpO Brian Machart, DDS..............................AGpO Kyle McCrea, DDS ................................AGpO Sherman Menser, DDS..........................AGpO Randy Newby, DDS..................................AOS Minh-Khol Nguyen, DDS .....................AGpO Milton Ntragatakis, DDS.......................AGpO Humberto Nunez-Gil, DMD .................AGpO Ann Mary Orr, DDS .................................AOS Jennifer Rand, DDS...............................AGpO Raphael Santore, DDS...........................AGpO Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS ...................AOS Gary Schulman, DDS ...............................AOS Robert Shirley, DDS ..............................AGpO Kimberly Suter, DDS ................................AOS Susan Tiede, DDS .....................................AOS Walter Tippen, DDS ..............................AGpO Jose E. Turcios, DDS .................................AOS Saskia Vaughn, DDS.................................AOS Bradford R. Williams, DDS ......................AOS William Wyatt, Sr., DDS ..........................AOS 4 Spring 2023 JAOS
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