Keynote Lecture for the Australian Orthodontic Congress

Dr. Jay Bowman was proud to have provided the keynote, opening address for the 23rd Australian Orthodontic Congress held in Perth.  This keynote lecture, entitled, "Just Face It:  Esthetics, Extraction, Expansion, and Early in Ortho," honored Arthur Thornton Taylor, the "Father" of the Australian Society of Orthodontists. This was Dr. Bowman's 5th invitation to speak for the ASO and, in addition, he was asked to provide 4 different lectures for this year's event.  Besides the invites to the ASO, Jay lectured at the World Federation of Orthodontists in Sydney in 2010 and had also previously addressed the New Zealand Orthodontic Association in 2003.

Faculty of Seton Hill University Center for Orthodontics

Dr's Don and Dan Rinchuse invited Dr. Jay Bowman to join the faculty of Seton Hill University Center for Orthodontics as a Visiting Clinical Lecturer.  The Seton Hill orthodontic residency program is located southeast of Pittsburgh in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.  Dr. Bowman is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Saint Louis University Center for Advanced Education in St. Louis, MO., an Assistant Clinical Professor at Case Western Reserve University Department of Orthodontics in Cleveland, OH, and just completed his 12th year teaching at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

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New Article Just Published on The Butterfly System

As a follow-up to our Journal of Clinical Orthodontics article, The Butterfly System, (http://www.kalamazooorthodontics.com/Portals/0/documents/butterfly_system_pdf/Butterfly_System.pdf), Orthodontic Practice US just published a new piece entitled:  The Butterfly System:  Brackets, Prescription, and Auxiliaries.  This article reviews the properties of the bracket system but introduces new aspects, adjuncts, and auxiliaries to complement the concept.  Several other of our innovations and inventions are described along with a description of approaches to different types of orthodontic malocclusions, illustrated with patient examples from our practice.  The article can be viewed at (http://www.orthopracticeus.com/web/home/clinical/203-the-butterfly-system-brackets-prescription-and-auxiliaries.html) or even at our brand new practice website  www.kalamazooorthodontics.com.  Many of our published articles on a variety of topics are embedded within the website.