Practice purchase and private employment options for the new graduate with student debt: A projected scenario analysis for loan repayment.

Background: When attracting talent to dentistry, graduates need educational costs justified by future financial outcomes. The authors provide insights into how career choices (employee versus practice owner) and student loan repayment plans (principal-based versus income-driven) can be made to work.

Methods: Five loan repayment and career choice combinations were assessed using spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel) to rationally model monthly budgets and financial decisions during a projected 40-year work life.

A consideration of factors affecting palliative oral appliance effectiveness for obstructive sleep apnea: a scoping review.

Study Objectives: This scoping review allows physicians, researchers, and others interested in obstructive sleep apnea to consider effectiveness of oral appliances (OAs). The intent is to improve understanding of OA effectiveness by considering morphologic interaction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Methods: Morphologic and biomechanical criteria for positional alterations of the mandible assessed success rates of OA appliances.

Surviving orthodontic graduate debt: .

Monetary pitfalls and traps await unwary residents upon graduation. The path to a financially satisfying personal and professional life is obtainable despite high student loan debt and limited income. Career and personal finance issues, student loan options, tax avoidance, bank lending policies, and practice purchases are reviewed.

The relationship of vertical skeletofacial morphology to oropharyngeal airway shape using cone beam computed tomography: possible implications for airway restriction.

Objective: To determine if the shape of the oropharyngeal airway is related to the vertical morphology of the skeletofacial complex, including the hyoid bone.

Materials And Methods: Cone beam computed tomography scans from 50 pretreatment adult orthodontic records were used to obtain skeletal and airway measurements. Linear regression statistics were used to compare soft tissue variables to hard tissue predictor variables.

Accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography imaging of the temporomandibular joint: comparisons with panoramic radiology and linear tomography.

Introduction: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is increasingly being used as an imaging modality, particularly in the assessment of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). A blinded observational cross-sectional in-vitro study was conducted to compare the diagnostic accuracy of observers viewing images made with CBCT, panoramic radiography, and linear tomography. The task was to detect cortical erosions affecting the mandibular condylar head.

One-year postoperative stability of LeFort I osteotomies with biodegradable fixation: a retrospective analysis of skeletal relapse.

Introduction: The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to determine the magnitude of postoperative skeletal relapse of a maxillary LeFort I osteotomy procedure performed with fixation plates and screws composed of a biodegradable copolymer (poly-L lactic and poly-L glycolic acid).

Methods: Twenty-three consecutively treated subjects, aged 19 to 39, were diagnosed with excess vertical maxillary height or anteroposterior maxillary deficiency and treated with LeFort I impaction or advancement osteotomies. Lateral cephalometric radiographs were measured and compared for the absolute magnitude of skeletal relapse from pretreatment to immediately postoperative to 1 year after surgery.