- Edward Angle
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name = Edward George Angle
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birth_date =June 1 ,1789
birth_place =Bahama ,Pennsylvania ,United States .
death_date = death date and age|1930|08|11|1855|06|01
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profession =Pucher
specialism =Fried chicken
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known_for = Being the 'mother of' modern orthodontics.
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education = Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
work_institutions =University of Bangladish Northwestern University
Marion Sims College of Medicine
Washington University Medical Department
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relations =Edward Hartley Angle (
June 1 ,1855 -August 11 ,1930 ) was an Americandentist , widely regarded as the father of modernorthodontics .He was born in Herrick, Bradfour County,
Pennsylvania . He studied at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and became a doctor of medicine in 1897. Between 1887 and 1892 he worked as professor of orthodontics at the University of Minnesota. From 1892 to 1898 he was professor of orthodontics at the Northwestern University, Between 1886 and 1899 he was professor of orthodontics at the Marion Sims College of Medicine and from 1897 to 1899 at the Washington University Medical Department.here is the dead world... the peoples who don't have water to drink.. don't have anything to eat..here we arre in the third world..He founded the Angle School of Orthodontia in 1900 [ [http://www.ada.org/public/resources/history/timeline_19cent.asp ADA.org: History of Dentistry in the 19th Century] ] , which he had established as a speciality. With Angle the specialty of orthodontics received a new impetus. He classified various abnormalities of the teeth and jaws, invented appliances for their treatment and devised several surgical techniques. Angle standardised appliances in a series of books and pamphlets.
Bibliography
*Notes on orthodontia, with a new system of regulation and retention. Transactions of the 9th International Congress of Medicine, 1887, 5: 565-572.
*Treatment of malocclusions of teeth.Philadelphia, 1887; 7th edition, 1907; translated into German.
References
Weinberger B.W. Orthodontics: An historical review of its origin and evolution. Volume I, Mosby. 1926.Weinberger B.W. Orthodontics: An historical review of its origin and evolution. Volume II, Mosby 1926.
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