Development of Orthodontics in Brazil and in the world

Oswaldo de Vasconcellos VILELLA

Education, organization and literature. Every scientific specialization rests upon these three foundations. Concerning to orthodontics it could not be different. The way how orthodontics was implanted into the Brazilian official education, organized around its class associations and what kind of specialized literature was available to its precursors was related in the present paper. Precursors like Antônio Gonçalves Pereira da Silva, probably the first one to teach techniques to make orthodontic appliances. Carlos de Almeida Lustosa, the first Brazilian who become a specialist. Carlos Alves da Costa, the author of the first text-book written in Portuguese entirely dedicated to orthodontics. On the other hand, to understand the way how these changes took place and correlate them to the overall Orthodontics evolution, an historical summary of its global universe was organized. In accordance to the present findings, it can be stated that it was necessary 50 years, approximately, to occur the post-graduation centers consolidation in Brazil. It is also true that the effort of the education institutions and class associations contributed to create the foundations of the Brazilian orthodontics scientific development. At the present moment, however, it seems to be of common-sense to suppose that the next step should be the establishment of rules that can regulate the post-graduation programs, in order to improve the new specialists professional formation.

Keywords: Brazilian Orthodontics – history. Brazilian Orthodontics – education. Brazilian Orthodontics – precursors. Brazilian Orthodontics – literature. Brazilian orthodontics – class associations.

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