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Brainerd F. Swain
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Brainerd F. Swain Brainerd Foster Swain is known to everybody as "Barney." As a graduate of the University of Maryland Dental School in 1935, he went immediately to Columbia University for his orthodontic specialty certification and taught there from 1939 to 1943. Throughout his professional career, Dr. Swain has been teaching or writing. Most assuredly, he has been inspiring countless colleagues in his beloved specialty of orthodontics. In addition to Columbia University, he has taught at Farleigh Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania, and the Medical College of Georgia. He has been an orthodontic consultant to the Morristown Memorial Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and still serves as a consultant for the U.S. Army Orthodontic Residency Program at Fort Meade, Md. He served as a dental officer in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. As might be expected, he has belonged to a number of orthodontic specialty societies, including the AAO, Northwestern Society of Orthodontists, Angle Society, Strang-Tweed Study Group, North American Begg Society. Among the official positions he has held are editor and president of the Tri-County Dental Society, secretarytreasurer of the Strang-Tweed Study Group and the Angle Society, newsletter editor of the Northeastern Society, director of the Edward H. Angle Society and the American Board of Orthodontics, president of the North American Begg Society, as well as the Northeastern Society of Orthodontists. He received his specialty Board Certification from the ABO in 1958. In addition to the most prestigious Ketcham Award, Dr. Swain has been recognized by the Distinguished Service Award from the Columbia University Orthodontic Alumni, the Robert H. Strang Award from the Connecticut State Orthodontic Society, Fellowships in both the American and International College of Dentists, a special Award from the orthodontic alumni and classes at the University of Pennsylvania. A dedicated contributor to the specialty always, Barney has been chairman or vice chairman of a number of committees in organized dentistry for both universities, and dental and orthodontic societies. With his writing skills he serves as a member of the Council on Publications of the American Association of Orthodontists and has written a number of articles and lectured throughout the 514
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world. Always a superb clinician, he not only developed the most widely used edgewise bracket today, the Siamese bracket, but he has given clinics on this to student and alumni groups throughout the country and has given many lectures to orthodontic societies. His expertise in the early years in the Bull technique, in the Begg technique, the straight wire approach, and the Cetlin philosophy has given him a broad based knowledge for these courses that is unexcelled anywhere. You might think that Dr. Swain with all his professional activities would not have time to do anything else. But he is constantly participating in fund-raising campaigns, was active in the fluoridation of his local water supply, has been part of the Juvenile Conference Committee of the juvenile court in Morris County, and has served on the dental state of Bonnie Brae Farm for Boys in Millington. A special hobby for Dr. Swain is photography, and he has both written and lectured in this area. Barney's tremendous knowledge has been put to use in textbooks, first in a chapter of the current concepts and techniques in orthodontics of 1969 by T. M. Graber, and a chapter on the Begg light differential forces technique. He joined Tom Graber as a coeditor in the 1975 second edition of the Saunders-produced book and updated his Begg chapter. When it was decided to have Mosby produce the third edition he again served as an editor for the 1984 version and he has been serving as a co-editor for the fourth edition by Graber and Vanarsdall that was just released in March, 1993.
American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Volume 105, No. 5
Indeed, the latest edition of "Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques" is dedicated to Dr. Swain. He also has a chapter in the text by Lee Graber: "State of the Art, Essence of the Science." His chapter on "Straightwire designed strategies in a five year valuation of the Roth modification of the Andrews Straightwire appliance" was state of the art. He has again served as in an educational capacity by developing AAO audiovisual slide tape sequences; i.e., "non-extraction treatment with the Begg technique, management of atypical extraction cases with the Begg technique, and do's and don't's in orthodontic photography."
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An indefatigable worker, a man of unimpeachable integrity who fights for principle, he surely serves as a role model for all of us, and particularly for the bright, young generation of orthodontists who are looking for leadership, for guidance in a changing health care milieu. He is called "the Abraham Lincoln of Orthodontics" by all his colleagues; there is no one more highly respected in the world of orthodontics than he. All of us salute you, Barney, for your lifetime of dedication to your beloved specialty of orthodontics. T.M. Graber, DMD, MSD, PhD, Odont. Dr. h.c., DSc
BOUND VOLUMES AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Bound volumes of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIALORTHOPEDICSare available to subscribers (only) for the 1994 issues from the Publisher, at a cost of $64.50 ($80.02 Canada and $75.50 international) for Vol. 105 (January-June) and Vol. 106 (July-December). Shipping charges are included. Each bound volume contains a subject and author index and all advertising is removed. Copies are shipped within 60 days after publication of the last issue in the volume. The binding is durable buckram with the journal name, volume number, and year stamped in gold on the spine. Payment must accompany all orders. Contact Mosby-Year Book, Subscription Services, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146-3318, USA; telephone (314)453-4351 or (800)3254177. Subscriptions must be in force to qualify. Bound volumes are not available in place of a regular Journal subscription.
Brainerd F. Swain Brainerd Foster Swain is known to everybody as "Barney." As a graduate of the University of Maryland Dental School in 1935, he went immediately to Columbia University for his orthodontic specialty certification and taught there from 1939 to 1943. Throughout his professional career, Dr. Swain has been teaching or writing. Most assuredly, he has been inspiring countless colleagues in his beloved specialty of orthodontics. In addition to Columbia University, he has taught at Farleigh Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania, and the Medical College of Georgia. He has been an orthodontic consultant to the Morristown Memorial Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and still serves as a consultant for the U.S. Army Orthodontic Residency Program at Fort Meade, Md. He served as a dental officer in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. As might be expected, he has belonged to a number of orthodontic specialty societies, including the AAO, Northwestern Society of Orthodontists, Angle Society, Strang-Tweed Study Group, North American Begg Society. Among the official positions he has held are editor and president of the Tri-County Dental Society, secretarytreasurer of the Strang-Tweed Study Group and the Angle Society, newsletter editor of the Northeastern Society, director of the Edward H. Angle Society and the American Board of Orthodontics, president of the North American Begg Society, as well as the Northeastern Society of Orthodontists. He received his specialty Board Certification from the ABO in 1958. In addition to the most prestigious Ketcham Award, Dr. Swain has been recognized by the Distinguished Service Award from the Columbia University Orthodontic Alumni, the Robert H. Strang Award from the Connecticut State Orthodontic Society, Fellowships in both the American and International College of Dentists, a special Award from the orthodontic alumni and classes at the University of Pennsylvania. A dedicated contributor to the specialty always, Barney has been chairman or vice chairman of a number of committees in organized dentistry for both universities, and dental and orthodontic societies. With his writing skills he serves as a member of the Council on Publications of the American Association of Orthodontists and has written a number of articles and lectured throughout the 514
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world. Always a superb clinician, he not only developed the most widely used edgewise bracket today, the Siamese bracket, but he has given clinics on this to student and alumni groups throughout the country and has given many lectures to orthodontic societies. His expertise in the early years in the Bull technique, in the Begg technique, the straight wire approach, and the Cetlin philosophy has given him a broad based knowledge for these courses that is unexcelled anywhere. You might think that Dr. Swain with all his professional activities would not have time to do anything else. But he is constantly participating in fund-raising campaigns, was active in the fluoridation of his local water supply, has been part of the Juvenile Conference Committee of the juvenile court in Morris County, and has served on the dental state of Bonnie Brae Farm for Boys in Millington. A special hobby for Dr. Swain is photography, and he has both written and lectured in this area. Barney's tremendous knowledge has been put to use in textbooks, first in a chapter of the current concepts and techniques in orthodontics of 1969 by T. M. Graber, and a chapter on the Begg light differential forces technique. He joined Tom Graber as a coeditor in the 1975 second edition of the Saunders-produced book and updated his Begg chapter. When it was decided to have Mosby produce the third edition he again served as an editor for the 1984 version and he has been serving as a co-editor for the fourth edition by Graber and Vanarsdall that was just released in March, 1993.
American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Volume 105, No. 5
Indeed, the latest edition of "Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques" is dedicated to Dr. Swain. He also has a chapter in the text by Lee Graber: "State of the Art, Essence of the Science." His chapter on "Straightwire designed strategies in a five year valuation of the Roth modification of the Andrews Straightwire appliance" was state of the art. He has again served as in an educational capacity by developing AAO audiovisual slide tape sequences; i.e., "non-extraction treatment with the Begg technique, management of atypical extraction cases with the Begg technique, and do's and don't's in orthodontic photography."
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515
An indefatigable worker, a man of unimpeachable integrity who fights for principle, he surely serves as a role model for all of us, and particularly for the bright, young generation of orthodontists who are looking for leadership, for guidance in a changing health care milieu. He is called "the Abraham Lincoln of Orthodontics" by all his colleagues; there is no one more highly respected in the world of orthodontics than he. All of us salute you, Barney, for your lifetime of dedication to your beloved specialty of orthodontics. T.M. Graber, DMD, MSD, PhD, Odont. Dr. h.c., DSc
BOUND VOLUMES AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Bound volumes of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIALORTHOPEDICSare available to subscribers (only) for the 1994 issues from the Publisher, at a cost of $64.50 ($80.02 Canada and $75.50 international) for Vol. 105 (January-June) and Vol. 106 (July-December). Shipping charges are included. Each bound volume contains a subject and author index and all advertising is removed. Copies are shipped within 60 days after publication of the last issue in the volume. The binding is durable buckram with the journal name, volume number, and year stamped in gold on the spine. Payment must accompany all orders. Contact Mosby-Year Book, Subscription Services, 11830 Westline Industrial Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146-3318, USA; telephone (314)453-4351 or (800)3254177. Subscriptions must be in force to qualify. Bound volumes are not available in place of a regular Journal subscription.