Dental malocclusion at the navel of the Xingu river

David NORMANDO

The feeling of coexisting with and treating a highly prevalent disease of which origin is unknown is unsettling. It reminds us of when heavy drugs were used to treat cancer of which association with Genetics was still unknown — in fact, nothing was known about the fact that the origin of cancer was right there, in the nucleus of the cell, in the DNA. And this logically resulted in a waste of time and lives. However, when the time came for oncologists and geneticists — cloistered in their laboratories, traveling into the nucleus of the cell — to meet, science made a gold-medal jump and Oncogenetics, the new science, sat on the front chairs of Oncology conferences. [...]

How to cite: Normando D. Malocclusion at the navel of the Xingu river. Dental Press J Orthod. 2014 May-June;19(3):15-6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2176-9451.19.3.015-016.edt

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