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Apos Special Issue 2016 ISSN 2321-4600 SPECIAL ISSUE 2016 Trends in Orthodontics Official Publication of the Asian Pacific Orthodontic Society APOS T rends in Orthodontics • V olume 4 • Issue 5 • September 2014 • Pages 108-147 Special Commemorative Issue 10th APOC Bali,Indonesia APOS Trends in Orthodontics | Special Issue 2016 i APOS Trends in Orthodontics TEAM APOS EDITORIAL BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE EDITOR Shalene Kereshanan, Orthodontist, Dental Services, Malaysian Armed Forces, Kuala Lampuur, Malaysia Nikhilesh Vaid, President Dr. Eric JW Liou, Associate Professor and Chairman, Tanan Jaruprakorn, Vice President Faculty of Dentistry, Chang Gung Memorial Wayne Dalley, Consultant Orthodontist, 3 Norfolk Bryce Lee, Secretary General Hospital, 6F 199 Tung-Haw North Road, Taipei, Street, Whangarei, New Zealand Prashant Zaveri, Treasurer Taiwan Afeef Umer Zia, Assistant professor, Department of Kazuo Tanne, Immeciate Past President Ameet Revankar, Assoc Professor, Department Orthodontics, Islamabad Dental Hospital, Islamabad, Presidents and ECMs: of Orthodontics, SDM Dental College, Dharwad, Pakistan Karnataka, India Association of Orthodontists (Singapore) Sheewanie Wijerathne, Consultant Orthodontist, University Clinic, Colombo, Sri Lanka Geraldine Lee, President; Bryce Lee, ECM Australian Society of Orthodontists ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hsin Chung Cheng, Consultant, Taipei University Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Tony Collett, President, Mike Razza, ECM Dr. Mubassar Fida, Associate Professor/Director, Association of Philippine Orthodontists Orthodontics Residency Program, The Aga Khan Chidchanok Leethanakul, Associate Professor, University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan Diana Dorothy Lim, President, Roberto Tan, ECM Orthodontic Section, Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla Bangladesh Orthodontic Society Micheal Mah, Private Practice, Discipline of University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand Zakir Hossain, President and ECM Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, 11 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Chinese Orthodontic Society NATIONAL Singapore Zhou Yanheng, President & ECM Sridevi Padmanabhan, Chair, Department of Letizia Perillo, Associate Professor of Orthodontics, Hong Kong Association of Orthodontists Orthodontics, SRMC Dental College, Chennai, India Chairman of the School of Specialty in Orthodontics, Vincent Leung, President, Wilson Lee, ECM Head of the Orthodontic Unit, School of Medicine & Gurkeerat Singh, Chair, Department of Indian Orthodontic Society Surgery - S.U.N., Naples, Italy Orthodontics, Sudha Rustagi Dental College, K Gangadhara Prasad, President & ECM Faridabad, Haryana, India Indonesian Association of Orthodontists ASSISTANT EDITORS Krisnawati Erry, President & ECM ADVISORY BOARD Priyanka Kumar, Assoc Professor, Japanese Orthodontic Society Santosh Dental College and Hospital, NCR, Kazzuo Tanne, Professor Emeritus, Department Hiroyuki Ishikawa, President, UP, India of Orthodontics, Hiroshima University Faculty of Keiji Moriyama, ECM Dentistry, Hiroshima, Japan Niveditha Shetty, Assoc Professor, A J Dental Korean Association of Orthodontists College and Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka, India Bryce Lee, President, College of Dental Surgeons, Tae-Woo Kim, President, Academy of Medicine, Singapore Hee-Moon Kyung, ECM Umal Doshi, Assoc Professor, Dhanvantari Dental College and Hospital, Parbhani, Pradeep Chandra Shetty, Consultant Orthodontist, Macao Association of Orthodontists Maharashtra, India NMC Speciality Hospital, Al Ain, UAE Wei Lin, President & ECM Priti Mulimani, Assoc Professor, Melaka Manipal Hee Moon Kyung, Professor, Kyoongpook National Malaysian Association of Orthodontists Medical College, Melacca, Malaysia University, School of Dentistry, Daeugu, Korea Noraini Binti Alwi, President and ECM Loh Kai Woh, Consultant Orthodontist, 14 Scotts New Zealand Association of Orthodontists Road, Singapore Peter J Barwick, President, Prashant Zaveri, ECM EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL BOARD Tanan Jaruprakorn, Thai Association of Orthodontic & Dentofacial Orthopedic Association INTERNATIONAL Orthodontists, Faculty of Dentistry, of Nepal Martin Antonio Reyes, Consultant Orthodontist, Mahidol University, Rajchathewi District, Prakash Bhattarai, President, Bangkok, Thailand Dashrath Kafle, ECM Unit 106 Silver City, Frontera Verde, Pasig City, Philippines Somchai Satravaha, Consultant Orthodontist, Pakistan Association of Orthodontists Bangkok, Thailand Mubassar Fida, President & ECM Md Zakir Hossain, Principal, Dhaka Dental College & Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh Keiji Morayama, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Sri Lanka Orthodontic Society Medical and Dental University, Japan W M Seenadera, President, Zhihe Zhao, Professor, Department of A Sriyani Basanayake, ECM Orthodontics, West China College of Stomatology, Joseph Varghese, Consultant Orthodontist, State Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Orthodontix and more, Mirador, Muttathil Lane, Taiwan Association of Orthodontists Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Kadavanthra, Kochi, India Eric JW Liou, President, Hung-Cheng Chiu, ECM Sichuan, China Thai Association of Orthodontists Benny Soegiharto, Professor, Department of Chairat Charoemratrote, President, EDITORIAL OFFICE Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Tanan Jaruprakorn, ECM REPRESENTATIVES Indonesia, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia Preeti Kulkarni, Private Practice, EDITOR IN CHIEF Isao Saito, Professor, Division of Orthodontics, Mumbai, India Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Nikhilesh R Vaid, Ground Floor, New Kyumi Shethiya, Private Practice, Mumbai, India Blue Gardenia Housing Society, Peddar Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan Manan Atit, Private Practice, Ahmedabad, India Road, Mumbai, 26, India Yoon Ah Kook, Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Viraj Doshi, Private Practice, Mumbai, India Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Dhaval Fadia, Sr. Resident, YMT Dental College and Korea Hospital, India ii APOS Trends in Orthodontics | Special Issue 2016 APOS Trends in Orthodontics on Web http://www.journalonweb.com/apos Facilities The APOS Trends in Orthodontics now accepts articles electronically. 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