Setting the Record (and Your Teeth) Straight THE STORY OF EDWARD ANGLE Every branch of medicine has visionaries and orthodontics is no different. Meet Edward Angle, a man born in 1855 who later became widely known as the father of American orthodontics. When Angle was young, he wanted to know how things worked. Growing up, he spent a lot of time around tools and farm equipment, exploring the mechanics that kept everything in working order. As he got older, his curiosity for all things mechanical turned to the physiological, particularly teeth. Angle pursued his passion by getting a job with a local dentist, learning the basics of dentistry as it was practiced in the mid-1870s. Then, when he was 21, he enrolled in dental school. In 1878, he graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and started his career as a dentist. Three years later, Angle began to suffer from a chronic respiratory illness. He was forced to relocate to Minnesota to recuperate, since the state has a temperate climate. But the initial stay for his health was short, and he returned to Pennsylvania as soon as he was able. Within a matter of months, he was off again, this time to Montana to help his brother, a sheep rancher, open a business.
Ultimately, the business fell to ruin after a particularly harsh winter, and Angle decided to go back to Minnesota to set down roots. By 1886, he had opened his own dental practice and joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota teaching comparative anatomy and orthodontia. In the early 1890s, however, Angle, once again restless, packed up shop and headed to Missouri. In St. Louis, he took up the role of professor at three different schools between 1892 and 1899. Then, later in 1899, at the encouragement of a number of students, Angle founded the Angle School of Orthodontia. After years of setbacks and relocations, developments in orthodontics really began to take off. Angle was in a position to develop new tools, appliances, and methods of treatment. Even today, Angle’s innovations like brackets, pins, and wires remain the cornerstones for many treatments. Though, of course, we’ve had many advancements since then. Regardless, countless people with amazing smiles have Edward Angle to thank!
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