Dr.

Emerita Birgit Thilander

• 1924-2016 .Gothenburg, Sweden

• First female professor in the field of odontology at the

University of Gothenburg and in all of Sweden

• First female president of the European Orthodontic

Society

• Studied how the tissues react when the teeth are moved
during orthodontic treatment, biological mechanisms of
craniofacial growth and development
 Dr. David L Turpin

• Editor-in Chief for The Angle Orthodontist from 1988 to

1999 and American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial
Orthopedics from 1999 to 2010
• Interim Editor in Chief from 2013–2014 when Dr. Vincent
Kokich died unexpectedly
• Turpin served one 5-year term on the Executive Committee
of the World Federation of Orthodontists (2010-2015)
• Current Affiliate Professor in the UW Department of
Orthodontics, and has been on the UW faculty since 1971
 Dr. Vincent G Kokich

• 1944-2013
• Professor in the University of Washington Department of
Orthodontics
• Editor-in-chief of the AJO-DO from 2010
• Introduced:
1.quarterly “Point/Counterpoint”
2. monthly “Ethics in Orthodontics” and “Statistics and
Research Design” columns;
3. “Case Report of the Month”
Dr. James L Vaden

• Private practitioner in Cookeville, Tennessee since 1972

• Adjunct clinical professor at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor from 1991 until 2000
• President to American Board of Orthodontics -1999-2000
• Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Orthodontics at the University of Tennessee from 1999
until 2010
• Co-Director of the Tweed Study Course in Tucson,
Arizona, a two week orthodontic course that is given three
times each year. Each class of the Tweed Study Course is
composed of 100 orthodontists from around the world
 Dr. Norman W Kingsley

• October 26, 1829 – February 20, 1913

• Father of Orthodontics
• Designed the first soft-rubber palatal obturators, which enabled
patients with cleft palate to enjoy normal speech and function
• First person in 1880 to introduce the concept of "jumping the bite
for patients with a retruded mandible".
Dr. Edward Hartley Angle

• June 1, 1855 – August 11, 1930

• Father of American orthodontics
• Father of' modern orthodontics
• Promoted separation of orthodontics from dentistry
• Established first orthodontic society and first orthodontic
journal
• E (expansion) Arch Appliance (1907)
• Pin & Tube Appliance (1910)
• Ribbon Arch Appliance (1915)
• Edgewise Appliance (1925)
Dr. Charles Henry Tweed

• June 24, 1895 – January 11, 1970

• Founder of the Charles H. Tweed Foundation for
Orthodontic Research
• Tweed believed that extracting teeth lead to a more
harmonious profile and was the best technique to
prevent orthodontic relapse
• Tweed triangle (1936)
 Dr. Paul Raymond Begg

• 13th October 1898 – 18th January 1983

• Begg bracket 1933
• In the 1940s, he worked with a metallurgist in Melbourne,
and the result was a highly resilient, stainless steel
“Australian” wire
• “Anatomically correct occlusion” and wrote a long article
on Stone Age man's dentition, which was published in
installments in the Journal in 1954
• Begg Orthodontic Theory and Technique,was published in
1965
• Multiloop light wire begg technique - 1965
 Dr. Samir Bishara

• October 31, 1935 – October 8, 2010

• His research involved working with the growth and
development
• Co-founder of the biannual International Symposium
on Dentofacial Function and Development
• He was a Professor of Orthodontics at the University
of Iowa College of Dentistry
 Pierre Fauchard

• 1678 – March 22, 1761

• French physician
• Father of modern dentistry
• First complete scientific description of dentistry, Le Chirurgien
Dentiste ("The Surgeon Dentist") published in 1728
• The book described basic oral anatomy and function, signs and
symptoms of oral pathology, operative methods for removing
decay and restoring teeth, periodontal disease (pyorrhea),
orthodontics, replacement of missing teeth, and tooth
transplantation.
Dr. Robert M. Ricketts

• May 5, 1920 - June 17, 2003

• Rickett’s Cephalometric Analysis-1961
• First straight wire bracket .018 inch slot, in 1970
• Rickett’s Utility Arch
• Rickett’s 4 point analysis
• Ricketts developed the bioprogressive philosophy which
stated that a face should be treated as a whole, rather than
focusing one's attention on just teeth and occlusion
• First person in United States to prescribe nutritional
supplements in his orthodontic and orthopedic practice
 Dr. Albin Oppenheim

• January 8, 1875 – November 20, 1945

• American orthodontist ,physician
• Head of orthodontics at the Dental Institute of the University of
Vienna but fled to Switzerland in 1938
• Published widely and reported that root resorption was unavoidable in
orthodontic treatment
• One of his articles Tissue Changes, Particularly of the Bone, Incident
to Tooth Movement was published in Angle Orthodontist in 1911
 Dr. Larry W White

• He was the first director of the University of Texas Health

Science Center in San Antonio Orthodontic Residency Program.
• He now practices orthodontics in Dallas, TX
• Adjunct professor of orthodontics at Texas A&M University
College of Dentistry in Dallas, TX
• Author of Orthodontic pearls
 Dr. Robert P Kusy

• 1947-2008
• Applied engineering principles to orthodontic materials and
techniques
• Mechanics oriented treatments - behavior of orthodontic wires
in bending and torsion
 Dr. Robert J Issacson

• 1932-2018
• Editor-in Chief The Angle Orthodontist (2000-2012)
• He was determined to have the entire archives of the
journal(The Angle Orthodontist) digitized for electronic
access
• Made the journal completely free, open-access
Dr. James A McNamara

• American orthodontist
• McNamara analysis – 1984
• Private orthodontic practice in Ann Arbor,
Michigan since 1971
Dr. Holly Broadbent

• 1927- 9th July 2009

• Research at Case Western Reserve University's School
of Dental Medicine and the Bolton-Brush Growth Study
Center
Dr. Giuseppe Scuzzo

• Founder member of the Italian Society of

Lingual Orthodontics
• Past President of the European Society of
Lingual Orthodontics
• Professor at Ferrara University and associate
professor at New York University
• He conducts lingual orthodontics courses
throughout the world and is a founder member
of the World Society of Lingual Orthodontics
• Author of Invisible Orthodontics: Current
Concepts and Solutions in Lingual
Orthodontics
Dr. Rohit Sachdeva

• Chief Clinical Officer at OraMetrix, Inc., the

first company to provide all-digital solutions
for the design and fabrication of fixed
appliances
• Developer of Copper NiTi and Titanium
Niobium archwires and Titanium brackets
• Clinical professor at the University of
Connecticut and the Hokkaido Health Sciences
Center Japan
• On the editorial board of the Journal of
Orthodontic Practice
 Dr. Sigmund Freud

• 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939

• Austrian neurologist
• Psychoanalytic theory – 1890s
Dr. Fred F Schudy

• 1908-2001
• Wrote extensively on the origin of the curve of
Spee
• Published a book, The Occlusal Plane and the
Vertical Dimension, in 1992
 Dr. Charles Burstone

• 1928-2015
• Developed COGS (Cephalometrics for Orthognathic Surgery)
analysis for patients requiring orthognathic surgery
• Created the Beta-Titanium orthodontic wire in 1980 and
Chinese Niti wire in 1985
• Popularized the segmental-arch mechanics in 1962
Dr. Anthony A Gianelly

• 1936-2009
• He was “evidenced-based” long before the term became
popular, and he instilled in his residents the need to
critically evaluate the literature and not blindly accept
presentations that were unsupported.
 Dr. Fujio Miura

• 1925-2018
• Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• Interested in the physiologic aspects of orthodontics, including
masticatory muscle function
• One of the first to use electromyography to study oral function
• President of the Japan Orthodontic Society (1974-1979)
• Research interests focused on 4 areas: comparative studies on
Mongoloid craniofacial morphology, tooth movement,
masticatory function, and dental materials for orthodontic
treatment
Dr. Lester Levern Merrifield

• Feb 1, 1921 to Jan 15, 2000

• On Charles Tweed’s death in 1970, Levern
Merrifield was named the Tweed Course’s
director – taught advanced edgewise technique
• Certified by the American Board of Orthodontics
and was recognized by the Board with its most
prestigious honor, the Albert H. Ketcham
Memorial Award in 1989
Dr. Rolf Gordon Behrents

• American orthodontist
• Taught at Case Western between 1978 and 1984
• University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, remaining
on the faculty until 1997
• 1998 to 2003, he taught at Baylor College of Dentistry
• In 2014, Behrents was named chief editor of the American
Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
Dr. Sheldon Baumrind

• 1924-2017
• Faculty at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry at the
University of the Pacific, San Francisco, the University of
California at San Francisco, where he served as a
professor of the Department of Growth and Development
• Director of the research center: the Craniofacial Research
Instrumentation Laboratory
• Research interest- development of integrated 3-
dimensional craniofacial measurement systems for use in
clinical dentistry
 Dr. William Proffitt

• 1936-2018
• Dr Proffit's textbook, Contemporary Orthodontics
• Coauthored Contemporary Treatment of Dentofacial
Deformity
• Professor of Orthodontics at the University of North
Carolina and was Chair of that department from 1975 to
2001
 Dr. James L Ackerman

• Chair of the orthodontics department at the University of

Pennsylvania in 1968
• Author of Enhancement Orthodontics: Theory and
Practice
Dr. T.M. Graber

• 1917-2007
• Pioneer in craniofacial biology and anamolies
• First to receive PhD degree from medical school at
North Western University – cleft lip and palate
• 1980- editor of abstracts and reviews of American
Journal of Orthodontics
• 1985- Editor-in- chief of American Association of
Orthodontics
Dr. Melvin Lionel Moss

• 1923-June 26 2006
• American anatomist
• Proposed functional matrix theory and it has been included
in the Vistas in Orthodontics textbook in 1962
• Former Dean of Columbia University College of Dental
Medicine in 1968
Dr.William B Down

• 1899-1966
• Co author of Cephalometric Appraisal of
Orthodontic Results – 1938
• Downs analysis – first cephalometric analysis that
could be clinically applied
 Dr. Alexander Jacobson

• South Africa based orthodontist

• Head of the orthodontic department at the University of
Witwatersrand (known as Wits, hence the name “Wits”
analysis
• Chair of the orthodontic department at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham in 1976
• Radiographic Cephalometry: From Basics to 3-D Imaging
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