The American Board of Orthodontics was established in 1929 and is the oldest specialty board in dentistry. Its goal is to protect the public by ensuring competency through the certification…
Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) said that every country has the government [and the criminals?] it deserves. So it is with orthodontics. Today, many suspect that our specialty is in decline….
When I received the invitation to write a Centennial Guest Editorial for the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics , after exactly 50 years as an orthodontist and educator, many…
I am overwhelmed with appreciation and admiration for the pioneers who forged and molded orthodontics from a trade to a learned profession. We can be proud of the changes in…
When I entered the specialty of orthodontics after some time in general practice, many of my older colleagues were saying that the golden age of orthodontics was over, never to…
When I returned from service in the U.S. Army Dental Corps in World War II, I started a dental practice in Rockville Centre, New York, but soon developed an interest…
When Charles V. Mosby and Martin Dewey launched their new journal in 1915, they gave it a name that seemed to say it all: International Journal of Orthodontia . Lest…
The story of orthodontics during the first 100 years of Journal publication can be told through the people who lived it. As part of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial…
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The single most important ingredient that has affected the success and progress of orthodontics over the last 100 years is people. The success of the specialty cannot be explained by the…
