Dr. Bowbeer graduated 38 years ago from the graduate orthodontic program at the University of Michigan. He has been in private practice since 1969 in Ann Arbor. He did conventional orthodontics for 15 years, before he was awakened to functional treatment and superior esthetics by a lecture by Dr. Merle Bean from Des Moines, Iowa back in April 1983. Over the next two years, he converted his practice to incorporate functional appliances and started a major project to determine just what are proper facial esthetics.
From this research he developed a diagnostic method that matches the facial esthetics of fashion models and movie stars. He has developed a facial analysis and cephalometric analysis that are easy to use and understand.
His extraction rate on patients over the past 10 years has been reduced from 60% of patients down to 10% using these new techniques. Any type of backward pulling headgear is rarely used in his practice.
Dr. Bowbeer has been lecturing since 1985 on facial esthetics, proper orthodontic diagnosis, functional orthodontic, and TMJ treatment. He has lectured at several national meetings and to many study groups all over the United States and in several other countries around the world.
He is a contributing editor for the publication The Functional Orthodontist, and he has written a dozen articles on treatment based on facial esthetics and proper TMJ function.
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