Percival Raymond Begg AO was a professor at the University of Adelaide School of Dentistry and a well known orthodontist, famous for developing the "Begg technique".
15 Facts About Raymond Begg
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Raymond Begg's father was an accountant and his mother was a business manager.
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Raymond Begg grew up working at a cattle and sheep farm in South Australia.
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Raymond Begg attended St Peter's College where he was a classmate of Howard Florey.
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Raymond Begg received his science degree from the University of Melbourne in 1923.
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Raymond Begg decided to enroll in Angle School of Orthodontia in Pasadena, California in 1924.
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Raymond Begg and Fred Ishii of Japan were the first to treat patients with the edgewise appliance at Angle School of Orthodontia.
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In 1925, Raymond Begg sailed back to Australia to work with orthodontics on his own patients in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Raymond Begg took up a position as a professor at the University of Adelaide.
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Raymond Begg initially experimented with Edward Angle's non-extraction therapy but without much success.
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Raymond Begg observed a lot of relapse and treatment results with which he and his patients were not happy.
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When he came back from the US, Raymond Begg was using a rectangular wire like Angle.
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Raymond Begg is known to have developed the "Australian orthodontic wires" in the 1940s when he worked with a metallurgist named Arthur J Wilcock.
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Raymond Begg mentioned that it was important to maintain the corrections achieved in Stage I while working on Stage II.
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The third stage of the Raymond Begg technique involves the root correction in the labio-lingual direction or mesio-distal direction.