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Edward Hartley Angle (June 1, 1855 – August 11, 1930) was an American dentist, widely regarded as "the father of American orthodontics". [1] He was trained as a dentist, but made orthodontics his speciality and dedicated his life to standardizing the teaching and practice of orthodontics.
Robert Edison Moyers (November 12, 1919 – January 8, 1996) was an American orthodontist who was the founder of the Center of Human Growth and Development (CHGD) at University of Michigan and chair of its orthodontic program for 28 years. He made significant contributions towards orthodontics through the development of CHGD and ...
The concept that was developed for the WFO was based on the fact that the national and regional orthodontic societies throughout the world would know who their orthodontic specialist members were and would be willing to validate that credential in order for the individual to become a Fellow of the World Federation of Orthodontists.
Rolf Gordon "Buzz" Behrents is an American orthodontist. Behrents graduated from St. Olaf College and earned his dental degree from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Behrents received a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1975, where he trained as an orthodontist.
The Angle Orthodontist is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering orthodontics that is published by the E. H. Angle Education and Research Foundation and is the official journal of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontia. The editor-in-chief is Steven J. Lindauer (Virginia Commonwealth University).
It represents nearly 19,000 orthodontist members throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. All orthodontists are dentists and may simultaneously hold membership in the American Dental Association. Its headquarters are in Creve Coeur, Missouri, near St. Louis. [1] [2]
Charles H. Tweed was the first certified orthodontist in the United States and Martin Dewey was the first Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. In 1950, ABO required graduates from residencies of orthodontics to present 15 cases and a thesis to get board certified. In 1964, a written examination ...
John Mew (born in 1928) [1] is a British orthodontist.He is the founder of orthotropics and mewing. [2] Orthotropics is a form of oral posture training that claims to guide facial growth and is not supported by mainstream orthodontists.