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Orthodontics in 3 millennia. Chapter 3: The professionalization of orthodontics.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  15953901     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In the 1930s, creative thinkers in orthodontics began to more openly question the status quo. Apprenticeships had given way to formal instruction, and proprietary schools bowed to graduate university programs, including some taught or headed by women. The MD degree was gradually replaced by the MS as the focus of orthodontics zoomed out from teeth to the total patient. Angle's dogmatic stance against extraction was challenged successfully by his last disciple, Tweed, and another of Angle's pupils, Broadbent, developed that century's most important diagnostic aid, the cephalometer, which opened the door to Brodie's landmark growth studies and Downs's cephalometric analysis. Dentistry's first specialty organization, the Society of Orthodontists, was formed in 1900, and the first specialty journals appeared.
Authors:
Norman Wahl
Publication Detail:
Type:  Historical Article; Journal Article; Portraits    
Journal Detail:
Title:  American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics : official publication of the American Association of Orthodontists, its constituent societies, and the American Board of Orthodontics     Volume:  127     ISSN:  0889-5406     ISO Abbreviation:  Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop     Publication Date:  2005 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2005-06-14     Completed Date:  2005-07-08     Revised Date:  2008-11-21    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8610224     Medline TA:  Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  749-53     Citation Subset:  D; IM    
Affiliation:
normwahl@olypen.com
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Dentists, Women / history
Education, Dental / history*
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Orthodontics / education,  history*
Schools, Dental / history
Societies, Dental / history
United States

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