Patients were orthodontically treated during initial leveling and alignment for six months, following the same sequence of round archwires: 0.013, 0.014 and 0.016-in nickel-titanium archwires, according to the manufacturers's (Aditek) prescription (Damon system).

[…] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.

Why, do you know Margaret, I never hear the gallant captain talk, but I think of those small stone bottles one sees by the road-side, in the little green barrows on hot, dusty day. Fiz, fiz, fiz they go, and only seem to be watching an opportunity to fly out in the face of that luckless wight who should be bold enough to cut their restraining wire.

Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat.