There are compelling reasons to attend this meeting. Duane Grummons will present impacting ideas and useful strategies to use immediately in your orthodontic practice. Get ready to receive steroids for your office and life. Some topics to grow your practice and inspire your leadership: Team Concepts That Get It Done Practice Development…The Good, The Better, The Best A […]
AAO Chicago: Leadership and Teamwork
Lessons from above: How your team behaves trickles down from the top. Leadership by solid example The ortho world is a stage Expect the best 100% of the time Absolute respect, dignity, and humility toward others Organizational Values: Above all, we value highest character traits We appreciate our patients who choose us. We value ongoing […]
Establishing The Orthodontic Edge
Dare to be different – distinguish yourself Fully utilize Pre-Invisalign strategies Command 5/10 step, Teen and Full Invisalign appliance therapies The Invisalign approach must be clinically efficient and effective for the treatment goals we seek. We desire to have this technique to be predictable/profitable. These pre-aligners approaches are game-makers. The orthodontist needs to deeply know and fully […]
Pediatric Dentofacial Orthopedics and Airway-Friendly Orthodontics
Orthopedic expansion of the maxillary complex allows a greater capacity of oxygen to enter the nasal cavities and permits the tongue/peri-oral muscles to posture/swallow properly. 80% of head size is already evident by age 8; 90” by age 13. Facial orthopedics must be provided before permanent teeth have completed their eruption. There is significant improvement in the […]
Orthodontic Asymmetry – Straight Outcomes
Let’s recognize the essentials from the front and apply modernized preeminent BioProgressive treatments. Dental-facial asymmetries and functional deviations are treated with differential orthodontics and facial orthopedic modification, or surgical management later. Patients want to be treated by a well informed clinician. Stunning smiles have proportionality, harmony, symmetry, and broadness consistent with the individual’s facial form, […]
Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Pediatrics-2012_OSA+Related+Guidelines 70% OBJECTIVES: This revised clinical practice guideline, intended for use by primary care clinicians, provides recommendations for the diagno- sis and management of the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in children and adolescents. This practice guideline focuses on uncom- plicated childhood OSAS, that is, OSAS associated with adenotonsillar hypertrophy and/or obesity in an otherwise […]
Sleep-Disordered Breathing in a Population-Based Cohort: Behavioral Outcomes at 4 and 7 Years
Airway ARTICLE-BONUCK-Sleep_Disordered_Breathing-1 OBJECTIVES: Examine statistical effects of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) symptom trajectories from 6 months to 7 years on subsequent behavior. METHODS: Parents in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Chil- dren reported on children’s snoring, mouth breathing, and witnessed apnea at $2 surveys at 6, 18, 30, 42, 57, and 69 months, and […]
Begin with the End in Mind – Clear Ailgners
Pre- Invisalign and Invisalign Tips & Tricks Retention Strategies – Keepin’ ‘em straightPresenter: Duane Grummons, DDS, MSD Board Certified OrthodontistSpeaker Biography Dr. Grummons is a Board Certified orthodontist who has lectured before most American orthodontic organizations and world-wide. His frontal analysis, TMD publications, and appliance innovations are sensible, progressive, and extensively utilized. Dr. Grummons is […]
Orthodontic Asymmetry Situations The Essentials from the Front and Beyond
Let’s take an informative journey utilizing essential and preeminent BioProgressive approaches for dentistry and orthodontics. It is significant what we can do. Once we utilize these principles, we cannot be without them. Patients want to be well informed. They want to be treated by a doctor and team who are well informed. Dental asymmetries and […]
Crooked Jaws – Straight Outcomes
Dental asymmetries and functional deviations can be treated with orthodontic and facial orthopedic correction during the growth period based upon the fundamentals of basic science and clinical sensibility. Relationships in the sagittal plane have dominated orthodontic thinking. The current clinician must be awakened to a deeper interest in the transverse dimension and 3-D frontal relationships. […]
Airway Screening
G’s Ortho Secret Sauce
“Good Morning and thank you for being here today! Our presentation “G’s Ortho Secret Sauce” by Dr. Duane Grummons will begin shortly but first, let’s get some housekeeping out of the way. Please turn off all cell phones and other audio devices now. And, please remember that, with all the lectures this weekend, no photographs […]
Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire
SLEEP Pediatric Airway screen form
Pediatric OSA Symposium
2nd Annual Meeting of the Minds, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Bridging the Gap Between Dentistry and Medicine Whether you are new to this eld or an expert, whether you are a dentist or physician, whether a clinician or academic you need to attend this symposium. Learn the di erences in diagnosis and […]
Pediatric Dentofacial Orthopedics – Airway-Friendly Orthodontics
Pediatric Dentofacial Orthopedics – Airway-Friendly Orthodontics The pediatric clinician must know about transverse dimension and structural relationships. Functional deviations benefit from facial orthopedics to resolve jaw/arch width discrepancies and Class II/Class III imbalances. The younger a patient receives maxillary or mandibular orthopedic growth modification, the more the jaws and pediatric airway reveal significant […]
Frontal Dimension and Smile Harmonies
Frontal Dimension and Smile Harmonies Condensed Presentation Full Presentation