orthodonticsn.

1909 Trans. Brit. Soc. Study of Orthodontics 2 86 The council..thought it desirable..the name of the society should be ‘The British Society for the Study of Orthodontics’. He [sc. the President] said..they had had the opinion of Dr. Murray the great philologist, of Oxford, to guide them. Mr. [C.] Schelling, as the originator of the suggested new title, here explained why he introduced the word Orthodontics.

1924 Science 26 Sept. 290/1 Dr. B. E. Lischer, professor of orthodontics at the Washington University Dental School, gave a series of lectures on orthodontics at the University of California from August 25 to September 4.

1939 L. B. Higley in J. C. Brauer Dentistry for Children ix. 218 Many difficult problems confronting the general dentist and orthodontist could be eliminated if preventative orthodontics were more thoroughly understood and practiced by all dentists who do work for children.

1941 J. D. McCoy Appl. Orthodontics (ed. 5) 6 Orthodontics has an abundant literature.

1955 G. M. Anderson Dewey's Pract. Orthodontia (ed. 8) ii. 89 Does orthodontics today differ from the practice of forty..years ago?

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Orthodontics 16 77 Poor bond strengths,under wet conditions rendered cyanoacrylates..unpromising for intra-oral use in orthodontics.

2000 N.Y. Times 5 Dec. f6/5 ‘Anything that makes teeth harder to clean is a terrific problem,’ said Dr. Wayne T. Prigoff, chief of interceptive orthodontics at North Shore Hospital on Long Island.