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American journal orthodontics and oral surgery
Editorial American
Journal
of Orthodontics
A
and Oral Surgery
FTER twenty-three years of publishing articles pertaining to orthodontics, children’s dentistry, and oral surgery the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTIA AND ORAL SURGERY with this issue changes its name to the ARIERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND ORAL SURGERY. This changehasbeenmade after careful consideration on the part of the publishers and at the suggestion and with the approval of the editorial staff of the JOURNAL. The name has been altered primarily because the time has arrived when the term orthodontics is believed to be more appropriate and comprehensive than orthodontia. The term orthodontia has become traditional among the workers in this field, and to some people it is somewhat of a shock to change the name of the JOURNAL; however, at this time, there are logical reasons for making this change. Professor Price, of the Oxford Dictionary Staff and member of the faculty of the University of Michigan, wrote to Dr. G. R. Moore, Chairman of the Nomenclature Committee of the American Association of Orthodontists, as follows : “The term orthodontia suggests that it means a flower, a disease, or a city in Asia. Orthodontics, on the other hand, is neat in appearance, easy to pronounce, and tells you at once, more or less, what it means. It is on a line with physics and statics and similar words. The case of its is still more simple. Since the fifteenth century it has been used in English to denote a science. It is a direct translation from the Greek, and we may say that this sort of ending has been used to denote a science for thousands of years. If you speak of orthotlonfics, I know at once that you are s#peakin,u about a science and do not need to start guessing mildly in which of half-a-dozen cat,egories I must place this word.” The INTERNATIONAL JOURKAL was launched on its career January 1, 1915, about the time the World War had just gotten under way. Throughout the worlcl the word orfhodonfia wa.s generally used concerning that department of dentistry treating of malocclusion of the teeth. The JOURXAL'S first editor, the late Martin Dewey, and the publishers believed that this new specialty of dentistry, orthodontia, hardly twenty years old, with only a handful of workers in the field, was destined by sheer merit to assume a, conspicuous and important position in health service. After twenty-three years of uninterrupted publication, fortunately that prediction has been amply justified, and the history of the rise and advance of this new specialty has now been permanently recorded in twenty-three volumes of the richest material ever published in any single specialty of dentistry. The JOURNAL will continue to carry the message of orthodontics into every civilized country of the world ; it is believed that AMERICAN JOTJRNAL is more appropriate because of the close connection between the JOURNAL a.nd the newly formed American Association of Orthodontists. Under its new 9i
Editorial name, the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICSAND ORAL SURGERYwill continue in its efforts to publish within its pages material in the interest of the advance of orthodontics and oral surgery. If these specialties of dentistry make as rapid strides in the next twenty-three years as they have in the past same number of years, they will be two of the most highly specialized and flourishing health services for the people in any department of medicine or dentistry. In 1915 when this JCNXNAL was started, the going was hard; publication of a journal pertaining to the single subject of orthodontics was pure pioneering and adventure. Good articles were difficult to obtain, and at times it taxed the entire resources of both editors and publishers to secure sufficient material to send the JOURNAL to press each month. Now all that has changed. Articles are so plentiful on this subject that the problem is mainly how to get the material assembled and edited and before the profession. The JOURNAL, under its old name, is proud of its accomplishments in the publication of such rich material of a new science and art; and had it not been for the loyalty, spirit, and devotion of the workers in this specialty, such an accomplishment would not have been possible. The record of orthodontics as a fast developing specialty of dentistry has been unique, and almost spectacular in its advance. This is no doubt due to the driving urge of its early workers to go ahead. Their energy and loyalty to their work have been nothing short of a religious fervor. Under its new name, the JOURNAL will keep step with the two specialties, orthodontics and oral surgery, in their steady march to the goal as the two outstanding specialties of the dental profession. The JOURNAL feels that its efforts have been repaid by the fine cooperation and an esprit de corps exhibited by these two groups of workers in the advancement of their recorded literature over a long period of years. It feels elation in the pride of accomplishment of what was freely predicted twenty-three years ago to be not only an impossible but also an ill-advised task. It was freely pointed out at that time that orthodontics was purely experimental in scope and character and did not justify a periodical pledged to its advancement as a specialty. The courage of the late Martin Dewey and of Dr. C. V. Mosby proved all those predictions to be false. The AMERICAN JOURNAL, OF ORTHODONTICSAND ORAL SURGERYwill continue to serve orthodontics and oral surgery throughout the world as it has in the past twenty-three years, and it will continue to cooperate in the fullest measure with the workers in these two outstanding specialties of health service. H. C. P.
Journal
of Orthodontics
A
and Oral Surgery
FTER twenty-three years of publishing articles pertaining to orthodontics, children’s dentistry, and oral surgery the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTIA AND ORAL SURGERY with this issue changes its name to the ARIERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND ORAL SURGERY. This changehasbeenmade after careful consideration on the part of the publishers and at the suggestion and with the approval of the editorial staff of the JOURNAL. The name has been altered primarily because the time has arrived when the term orthodontics is believed to be more appropriate and comprehensive than orthodontia. The term orthodontia has become traditional among the workers in this field, and to some people it is somewhat of a shock to change the name of the JOURNAL; however, at this time, there are logical reasons for making this change. Professor Price, of the Oxford Dictionary Staff and member of the faculty of the University of Michigan, wrote to Dr. G. R. Moore, Chairman of the Nomenclature Committee of the American Association of Orthodontists, as follows : “The term orthodontia suggests that it means a flower, a disease, or a city in Asia. Orthodontics, on the other hand, is neat in appearance, easy to pronounce, and tells you at once, more or less, what it means. It is on a line with physics and statics and similar words. The case of its is still more simple. Since the fifteenth century it has been used in English to denote a science. It is a direct translation from the Greek, and we may say that this sort of ending has been used to denote a science for thousands of years. If you speak of orthotlonfics, I know at once that you are s#peakin,u about a science and do not need to start guessing mildly in which of half-a-dozen cat,egories I must place this word.” The INTERNATIONAL JOURKAL was launched on its career January 1, 1915, about the time the World War had just gotten under way. Throughout the worlcl the word orfhodonfia wa.s generally used concerning that department of dentistry treating of malocclusion of the teeth. The JOURXAL'S first editor, the late Martin Dewey, and the publishers believed that this new specialty of dentistry, orthodontia, hardly twenty years old, with only a handful of workers in the field, was destined by sheer merit to assume a, conspicuous and important position in health service. After twenty-three years of uninterrupted publication, fortunately that prediction has been amply justified, and the history of the rise and advance of this new specialty has now been permanently recorded in twenty-three volumes of the richest material ever published in any single specialty of dentistry. The JOURNAL will continue to carry the message of orthodontics into every civilized country of the world ; it is believed that AMERICAN JOTJRNAL is more appropriate because of the close connection between the JOURNAL a.nd the newly formed American Association of Orthodontists. Under its new 9i
Editorial name, the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICSAND ORAL SURGERYwill continue in its efforts to publish within its pages material in the interest of the advance of orthodontics and oral surgery. If these specialties of dentistry make as rapid strides in the next twenty-three years as they have in the past same number of years, they will be two of the most highly specialized and flourishing health services for the people in any department of medicine or dentistry. In 1915 when this JCNXNAL was started, the going was hard; publication of a journal pertaining to the single subject of orthodontics was pure pioneering and adventure. Good articles were difficult to obtain, and at times it taxed the entire resources of both editors and publishers to secure sufficient material to send the JOURNAL to press each month. Now all that has changed. Articles are so plentiful on this subject that the problem is mainly how to get the material assembled and edited and before the profession. The JOURNAL, under its old name, is proud of its accomplishments in the publication of such rich material of a new science and art; and had it not been for the loyalty, spirit, and devotion of the workers in this specialty, such an accomplishment would not have been possible. The record of orthodontics as a fast developing specialty of dentistry has been unique, and almost spectacular in its advance. This is no doubt due to the driving urge of its early workers to go ahead. Their energy and loyalty to their work have been nothing short of a religious fervor. Under its new name, the JOURNAL will keep step with the two specialties, orthodontics and oral surgery, in their steady march to the goal as the two outstanding specialties of the dental profession. The JOURNAL feels that its efforts have been repaid by the fine cooperation and an esprit de corps exhibited by these two groups of workers in the advancement of their recorded literature over a long period of years. It feels elation in the pride of accomplishment of what was freely predicted twenty-three years ago to be not only an impossible but also an ill-advised task. It was freely pointed out at that time that orthodontics was purely experimental in scope and character and did not justify a periodical pledged to its advancement as a specialty. The courage of the late Martin Dewey and of Dr. C. V. Mosby proved all those predictions to be false. The AMERICAN JOURNAL, OF ORTHODONTICSAND ORAL SURGERYwill continue to serve orthodontics and oral surgery throughout the world as it has in the past twenty-three years, and it will continue to cooperate in the fullest measure with the workers in these two outstanding specialties of health service. H. C. P.