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 David W. Jackson, DDS ....................AOS 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 How To Move A Mountain: One Stone At A Time Dashrath Manshi was a very unassum-ing man. He lived in the Bhar region of India and spent his life as a poor laborer. Tragedy struck when his wife, Falguni Devi, passed away due to a lack of needed medi-cal treatment. Between his town and the nearest doctor, there was a mountain that made the trip 70 kilometers long. Due to this great distance and the treacherous terrain around the mountain, it was not possible to get Falguni to a doctor and she succumbed to the injuries she had received from an accident before she could receive necessary treatment. Broken hearted over the tragic loss of his wife Dashrath became determined not to allow others from his village to suffer the same fate. The mountain had kept the region’s villages in isolation for centuries. In addition the mountains’pressence forced people to have to trek through dangerous terrain for hours just to reach their lands or the nearest market town. Children had to walk 8 kilometers just to reach school. Dashrath decided to change that. He spent the next 22 years of his life on a single minded purpose. Armed with a hammer, chisel, shovel and wheel barrel, he worked day and night on the mountain. Fellow villagers remembered seeing him hacking away at the alp day and night as if he were possessed. But single-handedly, he carved a 360-foot long road, 25-feet high and 30-feet wide through the mountain so that it could be accessed by bicycles and motor-bikes. His laboring had now dramatically increasing access to schools, markets and medical facilities for his village and 60 other villages. It took him 22 years, but thanks to him the closest doctor was now only 1 km away. We all have mountains that may loom in front of us making it look difficult and scary to reach our goals on the other side. Those goals could be learning to provide intercep tive orthodontics, becoming a better practitioner, or adding new technol-ogy to your office. Regardless of what mountains are in front of you, start taking the necessary steps to start taking down that mountain. Both AOS and AGpO as well as this Journal are the chisel and shovels you’ll need to take down any mountains and help you reach both your orthodontic and practice goals. Our Annual Meetings in Denver this year as well as a host of courses for both you and your assistants will get you started on rolling up your sleeves and removing the obstacles in front of you or at least carving a big enough road to pass through. We all have dreams; how we want to practice, what we want our offices to look like, how smooth our orthodontic and restorative care will flow. Too often, we give up on them. We become discouraged or let others skepticism stop us from pursuing them. We give up on them because we don’t believe in them strongly enough. And the world misses out on whatever we might have accomplished. So if you have a dream professional or personal think of Dashrath Manjhi and his hand-carved road, and keep on believing. Make that dream come true for yourself and the rest of us. ADVERTISER INDEX Academy of Gp Orthodontics ........4 American Orthodontic Society ........48 DentaGard ....................................9 Dolphin Imaging Systems ............41 Great Lakes Orthdontics, LTD ......47 6 Winter 2014 JAOS Johns Dental Labs ........................23 KaVo Kerr Group ............................2 Myofunctional Research ................3 Ordont Ortho Labs ......................29 RMO, Inc. ....................................46
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