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 Wait or Create? Throughout our lives, we are confronted with opportunities to do one of two things. Do we wait or do we create? Do we sit on the sofa, or get up and make something happen? When we are confronted with a problem, do we wait for a solution to magically appear, or do we create a positive outcome? When we need to learn new things do, we wait for someone to teach us, or do we create learning opportuni-ties for ourselves and seek them out? In dentistry and orthodontics, we are also presented with opportunities with our younger patients where we again have the choice to wait or create. As dental professionals who do orthodontics, we create better smiles and better lives. We provide much more of a service than just straighten-ing teeth for our developing young patients. We have opportunities and an obligation to recognize and stop orofacial deformities before they become worse. We have opportunities to help change with what a child is living. But, to do that we must take the opportunity to create a balanced face as soon as possible and not wait for the child to get worse. We are more than just “tooth fixers” and “straighteners of teeth”. We possess a skill and knowl-edge to change the lives and affect the future health of our adult and young patients. Orthodontic research has conclusively shown that “bad bites” get worse with age. Imbalances that cause an improper bite only become more intense the longer they are allowed to exist. In this issue of the Journal , author Roger Price will ask us to “Lift up our Loupes” and look at the imbalances that can affect our patients and their bites. We will see why we need to CREATE an environment where we look at both the symptoms attached to the patient as well as the patient attached to the symptoms as early as possible rather than WAITING as addi-tional stressors on the body lead to greater dysfunction. In addition, we have as part of our issue, a case study from AOS course instructor and pediatric dentist, Dr. Lenny Carapezza. In his article, Dr. Carapezza will address early Class III treatment by looking at a family of young healthy triplets and addressing their developing Class III malocclusion to CREATE an environment where abnormal growth patterns of the crainofacial structures are intercepted and corrected rather than WAITING for the triplets to continue to deform. Additionally, this is the first time in the history of scientific literature that a podcast is being offered as a supple-ment to a scientific article. You can access the Orthodontic Smiles Podcast broadcast by Dr. Ed Gonzales that accompanies this article to hear how the parents of the triplet Class III patients feel about and regard the question: “Is the benefit of early Class III treatment worth the burden of early Class III treatment?” As Salvador Dali once said, “No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” There is no reason to sit and wait ignoring or missing problems or issues your young patients are experi-encing. Look up and start creating your orthodontic masterpieces. Don’t WAIT for the perfect moment: CREATE it. 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 ......7 American Orthodontic Society....46 Dolphin Imaging Systems ........47 Henry Schein Orthodontics ......48 4 Summer 2019 JAOS Leone America..........................27 Ortho Arch ................................2 RMO ........................................41 Rondeau Seminars....................11
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