title: American Association of Orthodontists Foundation Craniofacial Growth Legacy Collection: Overview of a powerful tool for orthodontic research and teaching.
abstract: This article reports on the current status of the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation (AAOF) Craniofacial Growth Legacy Collection--an AAOF-supported multi-institutional project that uses the Internet and cloud computing to collect and share craniofacial images and data for orthodontic research and education. The project gives investigators and clinicians all over the world online access to longitudinal information on craniofacial development in untreated children with malocclusions of various types. It also is a unique source of control samples for testing the validity of consensually accepted beliefs about the effects of orthodontic treatment or of failure to treat.
authors.affiliation: Professor and director, Craniofacial Research Instrumentation Laboratory, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, Calif. Electronic address: sbaumrind@pacific.edu.
authors.forename: Sheldon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baumrind
authors.affiliation: Technical advisor, Craniofacial Research Instrumentation Laboratory, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, Calif.
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Curry
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D002170:Canada; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003626:Data Display; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003792:Dental Records; D018865:Dental Research; D004497:Education, Dental; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008445:Maxillofacial Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003765:Models, Dental; D009862:Online Systems; D009970:Orthodontics / Q000193:education; D011861:Radiography, Dental; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface