Gummy Smile AAO 2019 Part 1｜【Chris Chang Ortho】CC513

An Unexpected Twist in the Journey AJO-DO Case Report of the Year Award
I’d like to start off by expressing my utmost gratitude to all of the staff in 3 the Beethoven Group, all of whom have helped make the Beethoven Group that what it is today. Why, you may ask yourselves?
It’s actually academic. Surprisingly! I am very proud to inform you that the Beethoven Group has won the award for the best AJO-DO case report of 2019. We were already over the moon that our unique one buccal shelf screw approach had been published in the AJO-DO, so to receive such a distinguished academic award, as a non-academic group, was completely off our radar.
I am a practitioner; I am an Orthodontist. Six years ago a friend of mine received this award and I never even dreamed of being able to receive such an honor. Therefore our case reports have never been written with any intention of receiving an award. The teaching value is the most important. How to serve and treat our patients is always the first concern, later we consider whether or not it can be a candidate for publication. Furthermore, I was requested to produce a video explaining the treatment details, which has become the most viewed on the AJO-DO website.
No case is ever perfect, but we can be well pleased with the results. The publication of this journal is our humble offering of passing on the baton of our analog experience to the younger digital generation, and we sincerely hope that everyone can learn from it. I don’t want to make anything perfect; I don’t want to suffer from OCD. This has always been the purpose of ourjournal, to help people not make the same mistakes that we have made. Wehave our own style, key points and show our mistakes and failures, which isnot necessarily particularly academic.
Will it ever happen again? We will continue publishing our reports for educational value and will keep on serving patients and trying to find better ways of helping to improve our profession. We will never do anything just for the sake of an award. I hope that you will all keep on marching with us on our path to glory.
Chris Chang DDS, PhD, Publisher of JDO.

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