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Everything Wick taught, in one place.
His three textbooks page by page, his recorded lectures, real cases, and a course through all twenty principles.
The course
The 20 Principles, taught by Wick himself.
One lesson per principle: read the chapter, watch Wick teach it on video, then check your understanding with a short quiz. Finish all twenty for a certificate.
See the course
The library
The books themselves, not a summary.
All three volumes as printed, clinical photos and all, plus Moody's lecture slides and every recording with a transcript that follows along.
Browse the libraryThe case library
Real cases, and the lesson in each.
Twenty-six cases from Unusual and Difficult Cases and Moody's lectures: what the patient presented with, what was done, and how it held up.
Read the caseOpen bite
Nonsurgical correction of a high-angle Class III open bite in a 16-year-old girl
16-year-old girl, near the end of growth
The lesson
In high-angle Class III open bite cases, palatal expansion can transiently worsen the open bite through buccal molar tipping, but this is temporary and can be resolved with vectored elastics, muscular exercises, and tongue control, allowing surgery to be avoided even in a borderline adult case.