Transactions Of The British Society For The Study Of Orthodontics

Author : Society for the Study of Orthodontics
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483690806
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics, 1921 (Classic Reprint) written by Society for the Study of Orthodontics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics, 1921 There is little hope, I suppose, of being able to get an ideal school at once, but I should like to indicate what seem to me the lines upon which work should be started, and what should be aimed at. Eventually I hope to see a permanent school with its own clinic, at which students can obtain practical experience concurrently with and subsequent to the training in theory and technique. Financial difficulties and the initial uncertainty as to the number of students, put that put of court at present. Practical considerations point to a course of ten or twelve weeks. In planning a curriculum the central idea should be to give as sound a knowledge as possible of the principles, physiological and mechanical, on which orthodontic work is based. Our knowledge of these is limited indeed, but if we aim at teaching thoroughly what is known, and indicating the need for further study and the lines along which it should be made, we shall be rendering a far greater service both to the individual student and to the science than if we aim merely at perfecting technique in some particular form of mechanical appliance or at making the student familiar with as great a number of appliances, or of varieties of malocclusion, as possible. Foremost amongst these basic subjects I would put what I can Only call the study of normal occlusion. It is absolutely essential that anyone setting out to correct abnormalities should have a clear idea of what normal is, not only that he may realise at what he is aiming, but that he may recognise with what form of abnormality he is dealing. The importance of the matter has been emphasised a good deal recently, and we have had to reconsider our ideas of what normal occlusion is; and there is no doubt in my own mind that the subject merits inclusion in any course as a separate branch of study. With it would be included the classification of abnormalities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.