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 Barbara Zuniga AOS Executive Director American Orthodontic Society 11884 Greenville Avenue, Suite 112 Dallas, TX 75243 (972) 234-4000 E-mail: BZuniga@orthodontics.com Tom Chapman AOS Contributor E-mail: TChapman@orthodontics.com Sniffing Out the Pandemic When I was young, my family would travel into the city to visit my great grandmother. She was a short grey-haired Sicilian woman who spoke almost no English and spent every day in a housecoat duster. As my parents sat down to visit with her, speaking only Italian with a strong Sicilian dialect, my siblings and I would settle in on the carpeted floor in front of her black and white TV console. At every visit, great grandma Insolia would serve us bowls of canned peaches in heavy syrup from her giant white fridge. Over 50 years later, the smell of cold canned peaches takes me immediately back to both the carpeted floor of her second story apartment in front of that black and white TV and other happy memories of hugs that would almost swallow you up as she greeted you. Our sense of smell is closely connected to our memories. The brain regions that juggle smells, memories and emotions are very much intertwined. In fact, the way that your sense of smell is wired to your brain is unique among your senses. Scents are the only sensa-tion that can travel a direct path to the emotional and memory centers of the brain. Since the start of the pandemic, wherever we go now, hand sanitizer surrounds us. There are bottles at the front desk and throughout my office. I have one inside my car and there is a dispenser in almost every building I enter. Every visit to the grocery store requires a liberal dose before going in and coming out. It’s everywhere and so is its smell. Whenever I place my hands close to my face, I get a whiff of the linger-ing odor of hand sanitizer and it’s a smell that after this pandemic is over, we will all remember. Knowing that our sense of smell is closely connected to our memo-ries, means that for many of us, future sniffs of hand sanitizer will bring back recollections of this time. The question is what will it remind us of? Will it take us back to a time of anxiety or of resilience? Will we remember the isolation of sheltering in place or when we found innovative ways to connect with the people who are special to us? Will we contemplate the opportunities that were taken away, or the continued pursuit of our calling to provide dentistry and orthodontics to our patients? Will we recall constant dread or unflinching hope? I both anticipate and want it to be the hope that we remember. That is what we will need to carry us through this time. We simply cannot allow this experience to deal an indelible psychological blow that forever cripples our world. Let’s make sure the future smell of hand sanitizer brings with it feelings of hope and posi-tivity in times of stress and chaos as we observe all the incredible and beautiful things that still surround each and every one of us both at home and in our offices. 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 ............13 American Orthodontic Society ..........46 Dolphin Imaging Systems ....................7 Henry Schein Orthodontics ................47 Ortho Arch ....................................2, 48 PreXion, Inc. ....................................21 4 Summer 2020 JAOS
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