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 Coffee, Carrots & Eggs Welcome to the start of 2022 and the 22nd year of our great Journal. As this year begins, we can take the time to look back at the challenges we have dealt with these last two years during the pandemic. We have all had to deal with challenges with our offices and our fami-lies; even the AGpO and AOS have dealt with challenges during this time. A few weeks ago, I came across this story of a young woman who went to her mother and told her about her life and how hard things were for her. She was unsure how she was going to make it with everything that was going on around her and she felt like giving up; she was tired of fighting and struggling. Whenever one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her into the kitchen and filled three pots with water and put them on the stove. Within a few minutes, the pots came to a boil. In the first pot, she placed carrots, in the second, she placed eggs and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. The pots sat and boiled for 20 minutes, then her mother turned off the burners. She removed the carrots and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out into its own bowl. Once finished, she turned to her daughter and asked, “Tell me, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” her daughter replied. So, her mother asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked her daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked her daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she smelled the aroma and tasted its rich flavor. The daughter then asked, “What does all this mean?” Her mother explained that each of the items had faced the same adversity --boiling water. Each had reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelent-ing. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique however, after sitting in the boiling water, they had changed the water, making it fragrant and giving it flavor. Over these last two years, adversity has knocked at all of our doors --both at home and at the office. There has been death, sickness and shutdowns. We have endured canceled and postponed weddings, graduations, reunions, meet-ings and work. As we have faced all these challenges, we must make sure that we don’t become weakened or defeated like the carrot. As challenges have mounted around us, we have to make sure we don’t become hardened like the egg or become bitter because of this event. Try to see this pandemic as an opportunity to make a positive difference and leave the situation better than when it started such as the coffee beans did. After they were in the boiling water, they changed it making it fragrant and giving flavor to it. It’s possible to start working toward this, and our great organizations are. AOS and AGpO have started putting together new courses to bring your orthodontic treatment to the next level. We are working to make your orthodontic treatment better than they were before all the shutdowns. Watch for these courses over the next few months. In addition, this Journal is here, as it has been these past 22 years, to bring you articles and products that will move you forward. When adversity continues to knock at your door, whether it’s from another variant or inflation or staff issues, do not respond like a carrot or egg. Rather respond by taking the opportunity to make a positive difference and leave the situation better than when it started. I’ll see you later this year at one of our courses or meetings…. with a cup of coffee in hand. 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 4 Winter 2022 JAOS
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