Angle East

Opening Ceremony

Sheldon Peck: The World of Edward H. Angle: Insights from his Letters (Ballroom)

LORNE Breakfast Buffet

Monday, September 17, 2007, 7:30 a.m. (Ballroom)

Dr. Angle, the inspiration for this Society, is clearly the "father" of modern orthodontics. He founded our specialty and was its first exclusive practitioner. Now we may dig deeper than ever into this great man's life and personality. The historical resources of his preserved correspondence give us facts and insights never before brought to light about this temperamental inventive genius. Learn about his rocky formative years, his unhappy first marriage, his daughter Florencie, his soft side, his hobbies and pastimes, his winners and losers lists, his agonies and ecstasies. All this and more (including a surprise celebrity interview) in this presentation aimed to entertain and inform.

Spouse Program:

Maurice Ptito - Seeing Through the Tongue

Maurice Ptito, PhD, MD, is a world acclaimed researcher and lecturer in the field of neurophysiology. He will share with us his research involving a system to help give "sight" to profoundly blind people. Using a system that involves a camera connected to a computer which sends impulses to the tongue via a receptor on the palate, the visual area of the brain is stimulated; and the result is one that enables an individual to "see". Dr. Ptito's credentials are remarkable, and his style of communication is such that this exciting development is easily understood by those whose expertise is far removed from neurology. Our eyes will be opened to a whole new world.

Special Presentations

Lysle Johnston: Evidence-based Treatment: shoot the messenger (Jacque Cartier)

Just as there are supposed to be no atheists in foxholes, it might be assumed that nobody could be against evidence in a learned calling. History, however, teaches that things are different in orthodontics, a specialty in which nobody dies and in which there are no agreed-upon end points. Instead, there are many different treatment "philosophies" and results, all of which are good enough to support a thriving practice. Decision Theory talks about the cost and value of "perfect information." In orthodontics, perfect information is too costly at any price because it would, of necessity, argue against all contemporary treatments but one. After all, for a given patient, only one treatment is best. "Research," therefore, is tolerated only as a potential marketing tool - if it supports a given treatment, it is embraced; however, if it doesn't, it is rejected, usually for fanciful, untutored, self-serving reasons. Because contemporary research, especially that based on randomized clinical trials, has failed to support many of our most popular, salable treatments, the entire concept of "evidence-based" treatment has come under fire. It will be the purpose of this presentation to examine the significance of this unseemly violation of the rules of science.

Birte Melsen: Orthodontic Anchorage Implants: State of the Art (Jacque Cartier)

The limits of an orthodontic treatment are often set by the lack of suitable anchorage. The mini-implant is used where conventional anchorage cannot be applied and not as a replacement for conventional anchorage. In patients with lack of teeth and reduced periodontium, skeletal anchorage allows the optimal positioning of the teeth following rehabilitation. Patients with need for inconsistent tooth movements, borderline surgical cases, can benefit from the use of the mini-implant and regeneration of alveolar process by tooth movement in edentulous molar regions and using mini-implants as anchorage will improve the reconstruction possibilities. The mini-implant has widened the orthodontic possibilities.

Kitty Tullloch: The Development of the Use of Miniplates for Temporary Skeletal Anchorage in Orthodontic Treatment

The introduction of implantable devices that do not move when subject to the light continuous loading of orthodontic forces allows for tooth movements beyond those traditionally expected. Temporary anchorage may not only have increased the success of conventional treatments but may also have altered orthodontic treatment possibilities in a significant way. The availability of absolute anchorage, beyond the dental units, with devices that require little additional compliance from patients, and can be used as readily in adults as adolescents has changed our options for treatment. This presentation will describe the experiences of a university-based program with temporary anchorage devices over the past 4 years.

Component Speakers

The Biennial meeting highlights new science in orthodontics. The speakers for this year's conference are:

• Angle East: Carroll-Ann Trotman: Smile Analysis and Quantification in Cleft Palate Patients
• Angle East: Joe Ghafari: The Hierarchy of Information
• Midwest: Gene Roberts: The Quality Road to Increased Clinical Productivity
• Midwest: Allen Moffitt: ABO Resident Clinical Outcomes Study and more...
• North Atlantic: Don Burden: Long-Term Outcomes Following Treatment of Class II division 1 Malocclusion Using Fixed Appliances
• North Atlantic: Dianne Rekow: New Advances in Tissue Engineering for Craniofacial Repair
• Northern California: Heon Jae Cho: The Long-term Stability of Mandibular Set-back Surgery
• Northern California: Maryse Aubert: New perspective on early treatment: Comparison of Data from Treatment Started in Mixed Dentition and Permanent Dentition
• Northwest: Doug Knight: What I Learned through Prospective Treatment of my Angle Cases
• Northwest: Rob Elliott: The Partnership of Orthodontic and Restorative Therapies: Key Elements of Communication
• Southern California: Alice Shen: Maxillary Impacted Cuspids: Can The Problems Be Prevented?
• Southern California: Jim Zahrowski: Bisphosphonate and Orthodontics
• Southwest: Jimmy C. Boley: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Adult Mutilated Bimaxillary Protrusion Patients
• Southwest: Wick Alexander: A Case for Developing Treatment Guidelines in Orthodontics

The lecture program is available for download.