I wish to thank Dr. Joe McCormick for heading a great 2004 meeting featuring Dr. Jack Sheridan on Air-rotor Stripping and Essix technology! The past two meetings headed by Dr. McCormick and Dr. Rosie Mayro (whose featured speaker was Dr. Bob Boyd on the Invisalign System) were the top attended annual meetings in the recent history of the organization. We strive to continue on our positive path to bring annual meetings of scientific and clinical excellence to all of our constituents and welcomed guests.

Please make a note:

Day: Wednesday
Date: November 9, 2005
Place: Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Our guest speakers for this year’s annual meeting are Drs. Ray Fonseca and Tim Turvey. They will jointly present “Selected Topics in Orthognathic Surgery” including discussion and indications for Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion, Anterior Open Bite Correction, and Complications of Orthognathic Surgery. We welcome our speakers to Philadelphia for what will be a most interesting and informative day.

We will be inviting all area Oral Surgeons to join us on this day. Please call your Oral Surgeons and invite them as well to ensure their attendance. We will extend the same course rate as our membership – still the best value on the CE circuit for 6 hours!

A special thanks goes out to Dr. Connie Greeley for her many years of dedication to our organization as well as her continued contributions and positive input to the GPSO today. We welcome our newest board member, Dr. Harold Middleberg who in a very short time with us has made excellent contributions to our society. We look forward to many great years with Harold on our board.

A very special thanks to Dr. Mark Mele who has become the ‘backbone’ of our board over his many years of service. His assistance is unprecedented in many intangible and important aspects running our organization seamlessly.

I look forward to seeing you at November’s meeting!
Best to all,

Michael A. Perillo

As the new school year is about to roll in, we are excited about the future. The entering class of 2007 is a superb one. They bring in much talent and experience. They come from the East, the West, the South, and from Philadelphia. Toward the end of their residency they may be inconvenienced, however, due to the construction of the new department. Our capital campaign is a significant one. Our goal is very high, but already a number of our friends and alumni have made impressively generous pledges. There are naming opportunities for rooms, clinic, or research & product development centers.

In the journalism area, Orthodontics & Craniofacial Research continues to be the most prestigious scholarly journal in orthodontics for its content of science and practical solutions to common problems - clinical or practice management. Meanwhile, we turned the editorship of the Italian journal Progress in Orthodontics over to Anthony Gianelly. However, we will continue to serve on its editorial board. The third publication Cases & Commentaries in Orthodontic Technology will no longer be produced. It will be replaced by a similar, but enlarged publication. The new publication will feature clinical reports, as well as, techniques in Invisalign. We expect the inaugural issue to come out just before the AAO meeting in San Francisco. We’ve named it Clinical Reports and Techniques in Invisalign.

The graduate clinic still holds the distinction of treating, by far, the most number of Invisalign cases in the country; more than any other graduate program. We value the richness of our clinical training: Tweed Course in Tucson, AZ, Broussard (Jacobson), MBT (Spannhake and Husain), self-ligating brackets (Bray), linguals (Husain and Bray), Tip-Edge (Mele), along with the true-and-tested techniques (Viechnicki, Albright, VanSciver, Ackerman, and Nah) which exquisitely prepare the residents for practice. But in addition to all these clinical techniques, we are also involved in developing the “Temple Implant.” Dr. Hyun-Duck Nah is spearheading the project. It is a self-threading type, but manufactured to her specifications – The Temple Implant.

Last year Dr. Marc Ackerman won the Dewell award in 2004. This is an award given to the best paper in the Am J Orthod. He still writes copiously and is busy developing the smile characteristics of the orthodontic patient to the next level. Dr. Ali Husain (’97) will introduce OrthoCAD’s indirect bonding technique to the clinic. Dr. Matthew Coats (’99) visits the department every year regularly. This year Dr. Brian Amy (’00) will teach the typodont course. And most recently, Dr. Robert Scholz (Alameda, CA) joined our faculty. He is the Technobytes Editor of the AJODO. His responsibility will be technology in the program; specifically, imaging and practice management software and the hardware that goes with those.

The nation’s orthodontic eyes are on Temple. We involve other universities in many of our projects. Dr. Jonathan Nicozisis’ (’99) project with the Relaxin hormone, for example, allowed two other well-known departments in the US and several others around the globe to get involved. He has been busy lately too; he recently invented, patented and put into production a device used to remove the tightly fitting Invisalign aligners or Essix retainers. It is called “ART.”

Temple Orthodontics is the place to be; full of excitement, ideas and progress. In 2008 when we celebrate our 50th birthday our facilities too will be ready to change the future of orthodontics irreversibly.

Dr. Orhan Tuncay
Chairman and Program Director

Due to the unselfish support and intense loyalty of our alumni and other grateful donors, the University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthodontics will have a new clinical facility.
The transitional clinic construction has begun on the third floor of the New Schattner Center and our department will move into the facility in July. The construction of the new Brainerd F. Swain Orthodontic Clinic that will occupy the entire southwest corner of the second floor of the Evans building and will be completed by early spring of next year.

The new clinic will double the square footage of the existing clinical space, and be outfitted with state-of-the art equipment, computers, digital radiography, etc. Our dedicated, talented faculty remains committed to providing an individualized education and we will bring aboard a new full-time faculty member this year. Our students continue to work an existing research projects for example, Dr. Damon Szymanowski created a special 3-dimensional computer
program – an incredible project on “Condylar Degeneration, a cone beam computerized tomography retrospective study” with Dr. David Hatcher. Drs. Stephen Tjoa, Antonino Secchi and Samuel King completed their thesis defense for degrees in Oral Biology as well as their certification in Orthodontics.

In our clinic for the past year the Ortho/Perio students have been utilizing innovative types of temporary anchorage devices with special emphasis on palatal implants and many different designs of miniscrew implants. They have been
evaluating the stability of different types of cases that in the past could only have been resolved with the aid of orthognathic surgery. Dr. Normand Boucher organized a three day continuing education course given by Drs. Larry and Will Andrews that was oversubscribed and incredibly well received. Dr. Andy Girardot continues to provide a TMD, occlusion and instrumentation course in May.

We would be pleased to have you come by and visit our department, but be prepared to wear a construction hat in some areas!

Robert L. Vanarsdall, DDS
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthodontics

The results of the residency selection process for residents entering in 2005 has concluded and the entering residents are: Dr. Jacob Chartier, a graduate of the University of Missouri at Kansas City and the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic Advanced Education Program in General Dentistry; Dr. Cary Leizer, a graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School and the General Practice Residency at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center; and Dr. Audra Sciandra who is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, the Abington Memorial Hospital General Practice Residency and until recently an associate in private practice. We are very pleased with the outcome of our selection process and look forward to an exciting and educationally rewarding experience for residents and faculty.

Much has been said in past reports regarding the commitment and accomplishments of the orthodontic residents and faculty at Albert Einstein Medical Center. And of course we continue to be proud and pleased regarding our current compliment of teachers and students.

There is another important program related component that is most appreciated but little recognition occurs publicly, especially in the larger arena of our specialty. The members of the Albert Einstein Medical Center Orthodontic Alumni Society have been and continue to be a devoted and loyal group of individuals. They not only care about the residency program on an ongoing basis, but they also have routinely stepped forward with important financial support to augment the institutional resources. Their loyalty and assistance is very apparent to recent and current residents through alumni donations. The availability of supplemental funds allows for financial support for educational resources and resident travel to meetings and other continuing education opportunities.

There is also a visible reminder of the many alumni donors due to the great number of appreciative dedicatory and recognition plaques located in the department. This alumni support sets the example for current residents to contribute when they are able. They realize that on an ongoing basis they and future residents directly benefit from alumni giving. My gratitude is extended to the following leadership individuals who are officers of the AEMC Orthodontic Alumni Society: Drs. Michael Roth, President; John Nista, Immediate Past-President, Larry Siegel, Founding President; Harold Middleberg, Treasurer; Paul Adams, Secretary; and Stuart Messinger, Editor.

Alan J. Borislow, DDS
Chairman and Program Director

Here’s hoping that 2005 is turning out to be a good year for all of you. In February, several Delaware orthodontists participated in the Delaware State Dental Society’s Give Kids a Smile program. Many youngsters received donated dental care from dentists, assistants and hygienists in three different locations throughout Delaware.

We are happy to announce that Dr. Ray Rafetto was inducted as President of our State Dental Society in May. Ray has served for many years on the State Society’s Executive Board. We wish him the best during his year as President.

We are busy preparing for the MASO 2005 meeting in Bermuda October 28-31, where yours truly is chairing the meeting. Many orthodontists from Delaware are planning to attend. We have an array of excellent practitioners and the
setting is superb. Hope to see you there.

Have a great summer!
Connie Greeley, DDS

The PAO annual meeting was scheduled to be held on June 17 & 18 at The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia. Dr. Rusty Bullock ( who is the PAO President and also a GPSO member ) organized a great meeting with Dr. Vince Kokich presenting a lecture on "Guidelines for Managing the Adult Debilitated Dentition".

Next years meeting will be held on June 16 & 17,2006 at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and the guest speaker will be Dr. Kazumi Ikeda and his tentative presentation will address"Diagnosis, Mechanics, Techniques and the New Role of Orthodontics in the Gnathic System".

A recent law affecting our specialty is the Pennsylvania law, Act 101 which was signed into law on November 19, 2004 which requires the inclusion of the patients name on removable dentures and orthodontic appliances for forensic purposes.

Joe McCormick