{"id":14689,"date":"2024-06-03T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/oral-history-how-tick-begg-revolutionised-braces-and-made-1920s-adelaide-the-orthodontic-centre-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:38:20","slug":"oral-history-how-tick-begg-revolutionised-braces-and-made-1920s-adelaide-the-orthodontic-centre-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/oral-history-how-tick-begg-revolutionised-braces-and-made-1920s-adelaide-the-orthodontic-centre-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide \u2018the orthodontic centre of the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Australian museum honours the man who changed the way dentistry was done \u2018on a global scale\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In medieval Europe, barber-surgeons might cut your hair, shave your face, do a bit of blood-letting and tend to a broken limb.<\/p>\n<p>They might also pull a tooth out with a \u201cpelican\u201d \u2013 a crude beak-like shank \u2013 or lever it out with an iron \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/waring.library.musc.edu\/exhibits\/macaulay\/extraction.php#:~:text=Barber%20surgeons%20themselves%20were%20divided,pelican%20and%20the%20tooth%20key.\">tooth key<\/a>\u201d. By the 17th century they might just knock it out with a steel <a href=\"https:\/\/library.unimelb.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0012\/1378794\/atkinson.pdf\">punch elevator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/04\/oral-history-how-tick-begg-revolutionised-braces-and-made-1920s-adelaide-the-orthodontic-centre-of-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f08a740c6f263f39a2352b0c7979b1bf4fa513b4\/140_259_1932_1160\/master\/1932.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=644c3e95350847b9c8a5ce996a430ff7\" title=\"Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide \u2018the orthodontic centre of the world\u2019\" \/>A South Australian museum honours the man who changed the way dentistry was done \u2018on a global scale\u2019<br \/>\nIn medieval Europe, barber-surgeons might cut your hair, shave your face, do a bit of blood-letting and tend to a broken limb.<br \/>\nThey might also pull a tooth out with a \u201cpelican\u201d \u2013 a crude beak-like shank \u2013 or lever it out with an iron \u201ctooth key\u201d. By the 17th century they might just knock it out with a steel punch elevator. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Australian museum honours the man who changed the way dentistry was done \u2018on a global scale\u2019 In medieval Europe, barber-surgeons might cut your hair, shave your face, do a bit of blood-letting and tend to a broken limb. They might also pull a tooth out with a \u201cpelican\u201d \u2013 a crude beak-like shank &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/oral-history-how-tick-begg-revolutionised-braces-and-made-1920s-adelaide-the-orthodontic-centre-of-the-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide \u2018the orthodontic centre of the world\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}