American orthodontics Maurice Berman Prize 2005.

Looking ahead.

Rasprostranjenost i svojstva impaktiranih drugih mandibularnih molara kod kinesko-američke školske djece Prevalence and Characteristic Features of Mandibular Second Molar Impaction in Chinese-American School Children

Adresa za dopisivanje Prof. Yehoshua Shapira Tel Aviv University The Maurice and Gabriela Goldshleger School of Dental Medicine Department of Orthodontics, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel Tel : +972-2-5335531 Fax: +972-2-5335532 [email protected] Sažetak Svrha: Željeli su se odrediti rasprostranjenost i svojstva zaglavljenja (impakcije) drugoga donjočeljusnog kutnjaka (mandibularnog molara) u ve...

Orthodontics in 3 millennia. Chapter 4: the professionalization of orthodontics (concluded).

Angle's legacy was assured when his disciples, both in the United States and abroad, boarded the joiners' bandwagon. The first 2 cornerstones of the professional pyramid were laid (education and organization), and the specialty began to pour the third cornerstone: orthodontic literature. Anthropologists, anatomists, histologists, and health professionals laid the foundation for the study of cra...

Orthodontics in 3 millennia. Chapter 6: More early 20th-century appliances and the extraction controversy.

The trying conditions of the Great Depression and World War II did not deter innovative orthodontists from adding 3 new appliances to our armamentarium. Clinicians become fragmented into various technique "camps." Silas Kloehn's neck gear became a more patient-friendly version of extraoral anchorage, but it still had drawbacks. Angle's stranglehold on the specialty was finally broken when 3 of ...

Orthodontics in 3 millennia. Chapter 1: Antiquity to the mid-19th century.

Orthodontics had its beginnings in the time of the ancient Egyptians, who used crude metal bands and catgut, but it was not until the late 18th century that the first practical appliances came into use. These were fine-tuned during the early 1900s; today's mechanisms are merely refinements. Major changes occurred when practitioners--originally physicians--began turning their attention from cosm...