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Editor’s Note: These fine case reports illustrate well that normalcy represents a range, not arbitrary, precise predetermined goals. Not all patients look like Venus or Apollo when finished, nor should they, as Edmund Wuerpel told Edward H. Angle so many years ago. Clearly, not all patients fit into the same mold, with our heterogeneous society and multiple
ethnic types. James Vaden is a world-class orthodontist, past American Board of Orthodontics
Director and President, Professor and head of a major orthodontic department, lecturer, and author. The question What price orthodontics? needs to be asked by both the patient and the orthodontist. If we need to categorize this approach, the words, achievable optimum rather than compromise should describe our treatment results.—T.M. Graber
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