24 Facts About Edward Angle

Edward Hartley Angle was an American dentist, widely regarded as "the father of American orthodontics".

Edward Angle was trained as a dentist, but made orthodontics his speciality and dedicated his life to standardizing the teaching and practice of orthodontics.

Edward Angle founded the Angle School of Orthodontia in 1899 in St Louis and schools in other regions of the United States.

Edward Angle was born to Philip Casebeer Angle and Isabel Erskine Angle in Herricks, New York.

Edward Angle studied at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and became a dentist in 1878.

Edward Angle then started working in town of Towanda, Pennsylvania soon after his graduation.

Edward Angle married Florence A Canning in March 1887 and had a daughter named Florence Elizabeth Angle.

In 1904 Edward Angle served as the Chairman of the Orthodontics section at the fourth International Dental Congress in St Louis.

Edward Angle married Anna Hopkins in St Louis in 1908 after getting divorced from his earlier wife.

Edward Angle moved to Larchmont, New York, with Anna in 1908, where he taught a 6-week course through his school.

Edward Angle eventually moved to New London, Connecticut, in 1911, in a Tudor Revival custom design house located at 58 Bellevue Place, sold to him by a New London great architect, Dudley St Clair Donnelly, where he continued teaching, but for health reasons he was forced to leave to Pasadena, California.

Edward Angle eventually opened his school in his new Tudor revival home, designed by the same architect of 58 Bellevue Place, in Pasadena in 1917.

Edward Angle was then elected as the President of the Minneapolis City Dental Society in 1888 after which he published his second edition of the textbook in 1890.

Edward Angle resigned his position as a faculty at the University of Minnesota and officially limited his practice towards Orthodontics.

Edward Angle then relocated to St Louis, Missouri, with his family and his assistant, Anna Hopkins whom he hired her in 1892.

Edward Angle earned his Medical degree from Marion Sims College in 1897.

Edward Angle published the sixth edition of his textbook in 1900.

Edward Angle founded the Angle School of Orthodontia in St Louis, Missouri 1900, where he formally established orthodontics as a specialty.

Edward Angle coined the term malocclusion to refer to anomalies of tooth position and classified various abnormalities of the teeth and jaws, invented appliances for their treatment and devised several surgical techniques as well.

Edward Angle's increasing interest in dental occlusion and in the treatment necessary to obtain normal occlusion led directly to his development of orthodontics as a specialty, with himself as the "father of modern orthodontics".

The development of Edward Angle's classification of malocclusion in the 1890s was an important step in the development of orthodontics because it not only subdivided major types of malocclusion but included the first clear and simple definition of normal occlusion in the natural dentition.

Edward Angle suggested that as long as the top and bottom molars were arranged in a smoothly curving line of occlusion and connected so that the mesiobuccal cusp of the upper molar occluded in the buccal groove of the lower molar, then normal occlusion would result.

Edward Angle suggested that as long as the top and bottom molars were arranged in a smoothly curving line of occlusion and connected so that the mesiobuccal cusp of the upper molar occluded in the buccal groove of the lower molar, then normal occlusion would result.

Edward Angle delineated three distinct forms of malocclusion, as determined by the occlusal relationship of the first molars:.