Edward Angle

Edward Hartley Angle (June 1, 1855 - August 11, 1910) was an American dentist, widely regarded as the father of orthodontics.

He was born in Herrick, Bradfour County, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and became a doctor of medicine in 1897. Between 1887 and 1892 he worked as professor of orthodontics at the University of Minnesota. From 1892 to 1898 he was professor of orthodontics at the Northwestern University, Between 1886 and 1899 he was professor of orthodontics at the Marion Sims College of Medicine and from 1897 to 1899 at the Washington University Medical Department.

He founded the Angle School of Orthodontia in 1900, which he had established as a speciality. With Angle the specialty of orthodontics received a new impetus. He classified various abnormalities of the teeth and jaws, invented appliances for their treatment and devised several surgical techniques. Angle standardised appliances in a series of books and pamphlets.