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 Before You Try To Climb Everest You don’t just buy a plane ticket to Nepal and casually run up to the summit of Mount Everest. If you do, you will fail. So, before you climb Everest you need to: Practice on and overcome smaller peaks first. Train incessantly until your skills are elite. Get yourself a support team to help you on your way. Find mentors who have been there before you. Create a strategy for climbing the mountain, and stay focused when things go wrong. If you want to climb Everest you need to understand that doing this will take years to achieve, but it’s worth it if you want to stand on top of the world. Now replace climbing Everest with the goal of achieving Diplomate Status in your organizations tier advancement or replace it with refin-ing and expanding your orthodontic skills and treatment and apply the same principles. Practice on Smaller goals. Take one of the many advanced or informative courses offered by AOS or AGpO. In addition, sign up to attend the great Annual Meetings being offered this year. You will have a chance to hear some of the outstanding lectures and presenta-tions and meet with all the great industry reps at the yearly meeting this Fall. Train incessantly. As you put together your cases to present, you will learn so much and become a better practitioner. The advanced and refresher courses offered to you as well as the speakers and lecturers at the Annual Meeting will help assist you on getting to the summit. Get a great support team and a mentor. Your course instructors and the lecturers and presenters at the Spring Meeting and Board Eligible Review Course are there to assist and aid you as you move toward the peak of orthodontic achievement. All the past Diplomates have made the climb your taking and they are ready and willing to support and assist you as you work to conquer that peak. Execute an effective strategy. Take the time to organize your cases and to attend meetings and reviews. The Journal is also here to assist you by presenting cases and articles for you to see and review from others who have made the climb to the top of tier advancement. Stay focused. Orthodontic treat-ment involves long term thinking. Taking the time and effort to move forward involves keeping in mid where you are headed. Whether you are trying to climb a mountain or put together a case study, your ability to focus can mean the difference between success or failure. Lifelong learning is a prac-tice and a mindset. Investing in your development through ongoing continuing education, adding new proficiencies or bolstering existing skills has proven to be the best way to keep yourself prepared for the challenge of scaling whatever “peak” you decide to take on. Greatness cannot be achieved in a matter of moments, otherwise it would not be greatness. But if you prepare yourself properly and do the work, the view is spectacular. We are here to help you achieve your goal. See you at the top! 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 Kauser Bari, 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 Majid Feshresti, DDS.............................AGpO Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD .....................AOS Roy Holexa, DDS ..................................AGpO Tam Issa-Abbas, DDS ............................AGpO Thomas Jacobsen, DDS.........................AGpO Brian Machart, DDS..............................AGpO Sherman Menser, DDS..........................AGpO Randy Newby, DDS..................................AOS Minh-Khol Nguyen, DDS .....................AGpO Humberto Nunez-Gil, DMD .................AGpO Ann Mary Orr, DDS .................................AOS Raphael Santore, 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 Bradford R. Williams, DDS ......................AOS Paul L. Winborn, DDS .............................AOS William Wyatt, Sr., DDS ..........................AOS ADVERTISER INDEX Academy of Gp Orthodontics ............33 American Orthodontic Society ..........43 Dental Creations, Ltd. ........................15 Dolphin Imaging Systems ..................42 Henry Schein Orthodontics ..................................2 Ortho Arch ........................................44 4 Summer 2022 JAOS
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