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2 unusual facts about Orthodontics


Harold Gladstone Watkin

In 1921, he became a member of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics (BSSO) and a member of European Orthodontic Society (EOS) in 1926.

With a growing reputation as an outstanding clinician, in 1933, he became President of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics.


Dental auxiliary

Dental technicians are dental auxiliaries who fabricate dental appliances: removable protheses including dentures and orthodontic retainers, and fixed restorative work such as crown and bridges for the dental operator to insert.

Edmund H. Wuerpel

About the turn of the twentieth century, Wuerpel became friends with the early Orthodontics pioneer Edward Angle.

Edward Angle

Angle was concerned with the aesthetics of orthodontics as well as functionality and so he collaborated with the artist and art educator Edmund H. Wuerpel in applying aesthetics to his field.

Gary Dilley

Dilley graduated from the Indiana University School of Dentistry, went on to earn a doctorate in orthodontics from the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry and then specialized in pediatric dentistry and orthodontics.

Malocclusion

Edward Angle, who is considered the father of modern orthodontics, was the first to classify malocclusion.

Patient registration

Dental splints have been traditionally used for transferring and reproducing 3D reference landmarks for positioning cast models in articulators – in dental prosthetics, orthodontics and orthognatic surgery.

Rodrigues Ottolengui

A dental pioneer, Ottolengui was one of the first to use X-rays and was a specialist in orthodontics and root canal therapy.

Shape-memory alloy

One example is the prevalence of dental braces using SMA technology to exert constant tooth-moving forces on the teeth; the nitinol archwire was developed in 1972 by orthodontist George Andreasen.

SMK- Composite Bridge System

In 1992, the first SMK treatment was performed in the Orthodontic Department of the Pomeranian Medical School in Szczecin, Poland, by dr. C. Turostowski.


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