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How Do We Compose Case Reports? In recent years, a few of our team’s case reports have been published in the world-renowned journal, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (AJO-DO). One even received the prestigious 2019 CDABO Case Report of the Year Award. These achievements are the fruits of our labor since 2006, when we started publishing case reports in our own humble JDO. I would like to share our secrets of writing pertinent case reports. The journey to compose a standard case report takes only 5 weeks. In the first week, you need to immerse yourself in the case to firmly grasp as many details as possible. The initial step is to analyze the ceph tracings to understand the change of profile and tooth positions between pre-treatment and posttreatment, followed by studying every treatment step as well as the Discrepancy Index (DI) and Cast- Radiograph Evaluation (CRE) measurements. In the second week, systematically study and evaluate similar case reports to “cop
