Updated February 21, 2010: "Short-term skeletal and dental effects of the Xbow appliance as measured on lateral cephalograms" is in the December, 2009 issue of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. Thank you to the authors, Carlos Flores-Mir, Gregory Barnett, Giseon Heo, and Paul Major.

See a discussion on extraction vs non-extraction, friction, and rapid alignment with light forces using CAAPP. See Dr. Bob Miller's online Xbow lecture at Orthotown.com See the new Dolphin Aquarium TM Crossbow Movie. See another extreme Xbow case

Thanks to Dr. Bob Miller, Dr. Carlos Flores-Mir, and Dr. Anthony Mair for their Xbow lectures. Congratulations to Dr. Hisham Badawi on his orthodontic simulator and his groundbreaking 3D force research comparing PSL and ligated twin brackets which supports CAAPP.

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After Xbow (full braces were not used)
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