Preface 
Prof. Damaso Caprioglio
Orthodontics moved its first italian steps as a pioneers’
game in the roaring ‘fifties with some Masters (Muzi, May, Hoffer),
then could develop with the first italian orthodontic study group
(GISO – 1967), with the SIDO (Italian Orthodontic Society –
1968) and the first university school (Cagliari – 1973), followed
by many others, then the ‘master’ courses and so on: started
with a spoonful of pioneers, now it’s grown to gather thousands
and thousands of professionals.
I was lucky in knowing, getting in touch and admiring
the first masters in both clinical and scientific work; more, in being
present at all phases of growth and development of italian orthodontics.
After editing many books and monographies on the
topic, I greatly felt the need of preparing and developing an orthodontics
collection, able to collect armoniously contributions from italian
orthodontic schools or by single practitioners; it’s the first
time this happens in Italy, and it’s directed primarily to undergraduate
and postgraduate students, and to professionals who intend to go in
depth into orthodontics.
Each book will hold a monography characteristic, varying in extension
following the issue.
Iconography will receive as much space as possible,
in order to favour its use also under the viewpoint of professional
clinical application. Text and bibliography will usually be both kept
short and strictly scientific, with clinical side in light, in order
to maximize the ease of consultation.
I’d like to thank the Casa Editrice Martina,
that was able to give green light to this chain, likely to obtain
great success, also because almost every University school is joining
and providing the best of their results in each specific research
field.
My personal duty will consequently be to utterly
raise the selection level of single issues, while that of the publisher
will be to improve extension and graphics.
I would also like to thank the authors and schools,
as in 20-years-space we will be able to offer a complete chain of
about 40 monographies, useful and practical, representative of italian
orthodontic quality at its best: particularly, I refer to dr. Alfredo
Martina, the publisher, always knowingly near to me in tough moments
and when hard decisions were to be taken.
That’s why I am specially glad our chain reached
number 30 and will proceed to further achievements, really in the
mist when we started it all in 1996 with book n°1!
There’s something special about this new book,
since it comes from one of the best and wellrenowned international
Orthodontics school, namely the Aahrus school, in Denmark, directed
by prof. Birte Melsen.
I’m so grateful to her, to prof. Carlalberta
Verna and to dr. Cesare Luzi, jr., who accepted my invitation in joining
us with an exceptional monography, extremely up-to-date, this way
giving our chain an international feature.
Prof. Melsen’s name is too worldwide known
as to only try to trace even a short CV, I would only like to underline
some peculiar features I have come to appreciate because of a friendship
which was born over thirty years ago and of which I am so proud of.
Among these features stand scientific deepness, accuracy
and extreme research precision, her firm will always be to express
the truth underlying every research, the struggle to determine the
importance of Evidence Based Medecine; she has constantly tried to
share these characteristics with every member of her school, developing
a fantastic international ‘club’ of pupils coming from
abroad, able to produce fundamental research and clinical works of
the greatest interest: among them, professor Carlalberta Verna and
doctor Cesare Luzi, jr., who in their long stay at Aahrus University,
first as postgraduate students and then as teachers, could train and
specialize in this new and very, very important field of skeletal
anchorage through the use of miniscrews, providing an excellent, precise
and well-documented series of clinical cases.
That is not all, as I feel particularly proud of
having Cesare as an author in this chain from the gratefulness I owe
to his granpa, prof. Cesare Luzi, sr., founder and first S.I.D.O.
President, who was my great teacher and master not only in the study
years in Cagliari, but also for many decades, master of life and friend.
His seriousness, his rigorous sense of precision
in research, his life ethics came to a new life in his excellent nephew.
From these premises it comes out as a logical conclusion that the
monography I’m presently presenting representts one of the most
outstanding contributions to this chain, as you can easily realize
by following how the focus of interest passes from hystologic studies
to the biomechanic ones, supporting the rich and multifold series
of clinical cases, thus illustrating principles of scientific evidence.
I am confident this book will constitute a fundamental
support for students approaching this field, but also for expert professionals
who can find here material with which to confront themselves and therefore
improve their techniques.
As a conclusion, let me thank again the publisher, dr. Alfredo Martina,
for his neverending energy and enthusiasm generously poured in order
to always improve this chain.
Prof. Damaso
Caprioglio
già Direttore Cattedra di Ortognatodonzia e Gnatologia
e dei
Corsi di Perfezionamento in Ortodonzia Intercettiva
ed Ortodonzia Pre e Post-Chirurgica
Docente di Etica e Traumatologia Dentale
Università degli Studi di Parma
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