OTHER PRODUCTS think that there should be one agreed-upon approach to each type of case, but there's not. Nothing even close! I've realized that's because orthodontics is 90 percent art and only 10 percent science. If it was all science, then it would be easy to identify a cookbook approach to orthodontics. But there is no cookbook. Michelangelo didn't have a cookbook. It's art. Orthodontics is art. Yes, it's based on some science of course, but everything from the final goals you think are most important, to the techniques you use to get there, to the materials used to achieve that outcome, are all personalized by the orthodontist. It's a complex art form and that's what makes it great, because it all comes together to create a wonderful smile and a happy patient. That's also why I'm not all that worried about do-it-yourself orthodontic products. Orthodontics Appliances * Upper jackscrew expander with bands on 6s * Facemask for skeletal Class III Bonding agents American Brace Paste Brackets GC America twins Burs Komet Chair Dome Cements 3M Ketac Impression materials We don't use them- we take digital impressions using an iTero Element Patient financing In-house Practice management Cloud9Ortho Technology * 3-D printer * Diode laser * Digital X-rays * iTero Element Wires G&H wires orthotown.com \\ APRIL 2018 41http://www.orthotown.com