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Definition of Orthodontics
British Society for Study of Orthodontics, 1922.
Orthodontics includes the study of growth and development of the jaws and face particularly, and the body generally as influencing the position of teeth; the study of action and reaction of internal and external influences on the development and the prevention and correction of arrested and perverted development
How the term orthodontics replaced the term orthodontia
This is an article that appeared in Journal of Orthodontics and explains how the dental specialty, now known as ‘orthodontics’ acquired that name.
