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 (972) 234-4000 E-mail: tchapman@orthodontics.com Porter Lyon AOS Contributor E-mail: PLyon@orthodontics.com Do You Live In A Pond Or In The Ocean? This past Memorial Day weekend, I took the opportunity to travel to Kauai, Hawaii so that I could attend the AOS Early Orthodontic Treatment Symposium. The speakers, Drs. Ed Gonzalez, Len Carapezza, and Elsa Echeverri, were amazing. There were 62 registered dentists who attended, and most were pediatric specialists. It was great to see so many doctors that were ready to move their practices from being in a pond to the ocean. Let me explain what I mean. A pond is a small body of water. It has limited resources and there is only so much room. Of course, there are times when there is extra water from rains that fall, but there are also peri-ods of drought that puts extra pressure on all who live in the pond. By contrast, an ocean is immense. It has seemingly unlimited resources and there is an abundance of space. It can be unpredictable and dangerous, but whatever the conditions, there is always enough to go around and more left over. By adding orthodontics to the treatment you provide to your patients, and by continuing to update the orthodontic treatment you provide by attending the outstanding courses and meetings available to you from our great organization, you move from being a practice in a "pond" to being a practice in an "ocean". A practice in a pond looks safe. By avoiding new treatment options, you can stay comfortable with what you are use to. But the tiny pond has limited resources, so that whenever the practice hits a dry spell, you have to wonder how much longer you can survive. Competition can become fierce when you haven't expanded the treatment you offer and new inhabitants who set up in your area end up being treated with fear and suspicion. By adding orthodontics as part of the treatment you offer to your patients and by continuing to refresh and update yourself at Annual Meet-ings, and at any of the great courses offered by our organization, you move yourself out of the pond and into the ocean. In this "ocean", resources are unlimited because you take the time and put your energy into continuing to educate and update yourself. There is enough for anyone who is willing to work hard and see the opportunities that this Journal and organization place all around you. In this arena, there is no reason to fear competition or others who also practice orthodontics because there is ample room for everyone. So where would you rather live? The doctors who were in attendance at the wonderful Kauai meeting took the steps to move their practice from a pond, a place of scarcity and limited resources to the ocean, a place of abundance. Start with our Annual Meeting this Fall to add to your knowledge and expertise and put your practice in the ocean. 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 Steve Bradley, DDS................................AGpO Ronald Cass, DDS .................................AGpO Jeff Dahm, DDS........................................AOS Joe Drinkwater, DDS .............................AGpO Scott Earp, DDS.....................................AGpO Elsa Echeverri, DDS..................................AOS Drew Ellenwood, DDS ..........................AGpO Ken Ellis, DDS ..........................................AOS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS.........................AOS Twana Farley-Duncan, DDS.....................AOS Joe Fallin, DDS ......................................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD .....................AOS Roy Holexa, DDS ..................................AGpO Tam Issa-Abbas, DDS ............................AGpO Thomas Jacobsen, DDS.........................AGpO Jon Logullo, DMD.................................AGpO Sherman Menser, DDS ..........................AGpO Randy Newby, DDS..................................AOS Ann Mary Orr, DDS .................................AOS David Pendleton, DDS..........................AGpO Sydney Reyes, DDS ...............................AGpO Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS ...................AOS Robert Shirley, DDS ..............................AGpO Kimberly Suter, DDS ................................AOS Susan Tiede, DDS .....................................AOS Walter Tippen, DDS ..............................AGpO Robert Tippin, DDS..................................AOS Saskia Vaughn, DDS.................................AOS David Ward, DDS,.................................AGpO Adrienne Williams, DDS,......................AGpO Bradford R. Williams, DDS ......................AOS Paul L. Winborn, DDS .............................AOS William Wyatt, Sr., DDS ..........................AOS ADVERTISER INDEX Academy of Gp Orthodontics................23 American Orthodontic Society ............29 AOA Lab ........................................11 Dolphin Imaging Systems..............47 Henry Schein Orthodontics ..........48 Modern Arch Co. ..........................45 Ortho Arch ......................................2 Rondeau Seminars. ..........................31 4 Summer 2018 JAOS
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