GRANT R N BOWBEER DDS, MS
606 West Stadium Blvd.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103

Ph.(734) 662-2527

 Lecture outline

 

BACKGROUND:

 

     Dr Bowbeer received his masters degree in 1969 from the graduate orthodontic program at the University of Michigan.  He has been in private practice since then in Ann Arbor.  He did conventional orthodontics for 14 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 2 years he converted his practice to incorporate functional appliances, and started a major research project to determine just what is proper facial esthetics. 

 

     From this research he developed a diagnostic method that matches the facial esthetics of fashion models, beauty contest winners, and movie stars.  He has developed a facial analysis and a cephalometric analysis that are easy to understand and to use .

 

     Dr Bowbeer’s treatment sequence is to first establish proper condylar position, if needed, and then treat the jaws and dentition to this proper position with a proper sequence of orthopedics and orthodontics.  This treatment usually includes upper and lower arch expansion, development of the proper vertical dimension, and then the coordination and alignment of the teeth.  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 of the AAFO and the USDI 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.  His articles demonstrate the subject of his lectures.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

  1. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Five Keys to Facial Beauty and TMJ  Health, The Functional           Orthodontist Vol 2, Number 3:12-29, May/June 1985

 

  2. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Saving the Face and the TMJ, The Functional  Orthodontist Vol 2,         Number 5:32-44, September/October 1985

 

 

  3. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Saving the Face and the TMJ - Part 2, The Functional Orthodontist        Vol 3 Number 2:9-24, March/April 1986

 

  4. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Saving the Face and the TMJ - Part 3, The Functional Orthodontist        Vol 3 Number 5:6-21, Sept/Oct, 1986

 

  5. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Saving the Face and the TMJ - Part 4, The  Functional Orthodontist       Vol 4 Number 1:8-21, Jan/Feb, 1987

 

  6. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Sixth Key to Facial Beauty and TMJ Health, The Functional            Orthodontist Vol 4, Number 4:10-35, July/August, 1987

 

  7. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Man of the Year Interview,  The Functional Orthodontist  Vol 4             Number 6:12-16 November/December 1987

 

  8. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Seventh Key to Facial Beauty and TMJ Health - Proper      Condylar Position, The Funct Orthodontist Vol 5, Number 5:4-20                 Sept/October, 1989

 

  9. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Seventh Key to Facial Beauty and TMJ Health - Part 2:      Proper Condylar Position,  The Funct Orthodontist  Vol 7,  Number 2:4-32       Mar/April, 1990

 

 10. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Five Keys to Facial Beauty and TMJ Health,  Reprinted with          an Update, The Functional Orthodontist Vol 8, Number 5:13-27, Sept/Oct, 1991

 

 11. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: The Seventh Key to Facial Beauty and TMJ Health - Part 3: The           Proper Condylar Position, The Funct. Orthodontist Vol 10, Number 2:32-44          March/April, 1993

 

 12. Bowbeer, G.R.N.: Functional Orthodontics: Past, Present, and Future, The            Functional Orthodontist  Vol 12, Number 1:16-17  January/February, 1995

 

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REPRINTS:

 

  * Reprints of these articles are available from :

AMERICAN ASSOC OF FUNCTIONAL ORTHODONTICS
106 S KENT ST
WINCHESTER, VA 22601
(800) 441-3850