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 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 EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Ron Austin, DDS............................AGpO Chris Baker, RN, DMD......................AOS Ernest Barbosa, DDS ......................AGpO Eugene Boone, DDS.......................AGpO Steve Bradley, DDS ........................AGpO Felecia Burridge, DDS ....................AGpO Fred Der, DDS ................................AGpO Joe Drinkwater, DDS......................AGpO Twana Farley-Duncan, DDS..............AOS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS .................AOS Joe Fallin, DDS...............................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD..............AOS Joe Haack, DDS .................................AOS Kevin J. Hester, DDS .........................AOS Roy Holexa, DDS ...........................AGpO Thomas Jacobsen, DDS..................AGpO Giancarlo Maldonado, DDS ..........AGpO Kyle McCrea, DDS .........................AGpO Sherman Menser, DDS...................AGpO Brian Olsen, DDS...........................AGpO Ann Mary Orr, DDS ..........................AOS James Orrington, DMD ....................AOS Leslie R. Penley, DDS .....................AGpO Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS............AOS Robert Shirley, DDS .......................AGpO Jill Snyder, DDS .............................AGpO Juan J. Solano, DDS ..........................AOS Kurt Stodola, DDS..........................AGpO David Thorfinnson, DDS..................AOS Walter Tippen, DDS.......................AGpO John Wells, DDS ............................AGpO Bradford R. Williams, DDS ...............AOS Paul L. Winborn, DDS ......................AOS William Wyatt, Sr., DDS ...................AOS It's Time To Get Out Of the Cave There was a time in human history when living in a cave was the best possible option for shelter. A cave provided safety and security during a time when there were a wide range of significant physical threats roaming outside your door. If you left the cave, there were bears, lions, beasties and other tribes waiting too cause you harm. But you had to leave the cave and venture outside because that is where the food was. So people would venture forth in search of the food and water needed to sustain them. Fast forward 50 thousand years and I can't help but think that as much as we have progressed as a species, there are still large numbers of people living in figurative caves. We often look for safety and comfort and live in fear of threats, either real or imagined. So we hide and we find a place of security and comfort and become happy just to get by. As dentists, too often our offices become caves; comfortable places to hide away from all the outside threats either real of imagined. Our office is a safe place where we don't have to stick our necks out too far. But it takes boldness to get out of the cave. It is the kind of boldness to real-ize that you don't have to practice like that. It takes boldness to understand that just because so many around you are craving security, you don't have to. It is the bold-ness to do something that will leave a mark much greater and more significant then a few unremarkable scratchings on an obscure cave wall. So, to nourish our prac-tices, and ourselves we have to leave our cave and look for sustenance. That suste-nance can be found at our Annual Meeting in Denver. We have to strive to be bold enough to look for the information that will sustain our office. We can find this through continuing education and peer advancement like that which is offered at our Annual Meetings. It takes a warrior to get out of the cave: a warrior prepares himself or herself for battle and is ready for action. A warrior knows that everyone will die one day, but they choose to live and die doing some-thing meaningful, rather than living and dying after a pointless existence. It's time to be a warrior. Put on your war paint and step out of the cave and prepare yourself for action at the Annual Meeting in Denver. You will find information to sustain you and others in our "tribe" ready to help you advance with your orthodontic cases and learning. It takes leadership to leave the cave. Everyone is watching to see who will take the first step. Your peers are watching to see if you are someone worth following. Show them. Bring your cases to be part of peer advancement. Put your name forward to become a board member. But you have to leave the cave; you have to venture outside and make your way to Denver first. We live in a time where there are very few genuine dangers. Moderate embarrass-ment or temporary failure don't compare to lions and bears. So get out of the cave. Make your way to Denver and be part of our great orthodontic continuing educa-tion, tier advancement and leadership. It's not the cave you fear to enter that holds the greatest treasure. The greatest treasure is always outside the cave you fear to leave. I'll be looking for warriors in Denver. ADVERTISER INDEX Academy of Gp Orthodontics ........4 American Orthodontic Society ........48 ClearCorrect ................................11 Dolphin Imaging Systems ............25 Great Lakes Orthdontics, LTD ......35 Johns Dental Labs ........................24 6 Summer 2014 JAOS KaVo Kerr Group ..........................46 OrthoArch....................................47 Reliance Orthodontic Products, Inc. ............................37 RMO, Inc. ......................................2 Rondeau Seminars ......................31 United States Army ........................3
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