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The History of The Orthodontist   by Abraham Avotina

Today’s orthodontist has more tools and procedure available in teeth-straightening than ever before and that has increased the orthodontia procedure even further. Seeing the continued success of orthodontia work, general dentists are more likely to prescribe orthodontia work and the general public is more likely to consider such procedures.

As far back as the medical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans, there are references to straightening patients’ teeth. Archeologists have dug up remains with bands on people’s teeth, showing that the desire for straight teeth is millenniums old. Dental floss and toothpicks have been found with ancient cavemen. Historians put the start of orthodontics somewhere around 1000 B.C. It wasn’t always a medical professional who handled the orthodontia work. Sometimes the town’s silversmith did the job. Hippocrates and Aristotle both made mention of crooked teeth in their writings.

The French dentist Jacques Lefoulon was the first to use the term