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Surprising Facts about the Origins of Orthodontics

 



1. Straighter teeth started in Egypt.

2. Traditional braces have been around for almost 300 years.

3. Braces used to have a whole lot more metal. They were custom to each person and wrapped around the entire tooth.  They were then cemented in the mouth.

        Before the 1970’s, orthodontists hand anchor brackets to teeth by winding wires tightly around each individual tooth

4. The first book about dentistry was written in 1840.

        Chapin A. Harris published his first book; “The Dental Art”. It describes practices about soldering knobs on bands to assist tooth rotation as well as applying gold caps to molars to open the dental bite.

 

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