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John Nutting Farrar: Pioneer of Orthodontics by FaBian VeLarde is a document available to read on EtoBox.
John Nutting Farrar was a 19th century dentist who devoted his career to studying orthodontics. Through years of experimentation, he developed the concept of applying intermittent pressure to teeth to cause movement through absorption of socket tissue. He published his findings in 1888 in a two volume work called Irregularities of the Teeth and Their Correction, which advanced the scientific understanding of tooth movement. Farrar helped establish orthodontics as a separate field from general dentistry and
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- FaBian VeLarde
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- EN