Edward Angle was an American dentist who is considered the father of modern orthodontics.
He was born on June 1 in Herrick, Pennsylvania, in 1876 he began his studies at the Institute of Oral Surgery in Philadelphia, graduating in 1878 and beginning his professional practice in Towanda, where his interest in orthodontics began.
In 1886 he was appointed Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Minnesota, since he would reject 6 years later, at which time he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to orthodontics, being the first exclusive orthodontist.
He published a large number of articles, but the most important was in the magazine Dental Cosmos in 1899, which dealt with the classification, which we continue to use today, of the bad position of the teeth and how they fit together. In 1900, Angle inaugurated the first school related to orthodontics in Sant Louis and, a year later, founded the American Association of Orthodontists.
I like this person because I am very interested in orthodontics and he was the first of the orthodontists, and thanks to him we began to talk about orthodontics not only as a technique to align the teeth, but as an element that balances health and the appliance masticatory.
