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We would all like to intercept the development of malocclusion. In theory, interceptive orthodontics aims to manage arch-length discrepancies and promote favourable skeletal development before the permanent occlusion is fully established. These aims are laudable. Unfortunately, evidence for the benefits of interceptive treatment is limited. There have been some randomised tri...


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This post is by Martyn Cobourne. He published this on the excellent Evidence Based Orthodontics Facebook group. I was planning to write a post on this important update, but while I was out walking the dog, he beat me to it. He has done a great summary of the reco...


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The Twin block is the most widely used functional appliance. It is also one of the most extensively researched appliances, with many randomised trials evaluating its effectiveness. While it is an eff...


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Electronic health records are now routine for clinical record-keeping. Many of us still use a keyboard to enter patient data. However, with the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR), several packages have become available for use in healthcare. Nevertheless, there are challenges in interpreting clinical speech into text. This new paper examined the accuracy of aut...


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The quantity and quality of research into clear aligners seems to be improving. This post is about a well-conducted, new randomised trial of monitoring the wear time of orthodontic aligners. It provides useful information on the effect of informing patients that we monitor the time that they wear their aligners.

A team from Munich, Germany, did this study. The AJODO...


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