Allan Gibson Brodie was an American dentist and orthodonist.
Education
After earning his Doctor of Dental Surgery (Doctor of Dental Surgery) degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1919, he began practicing dentistry in Newark, New Jersey, the next year. Doctor Brodie studied under Edward Angle, the "father of orthodontics," at the Angle School of Orthodontia in Pasadena, California, in 1925 and 1926, and matriculated in the school"s final graduating class. Doctor Brodie, in turn, often referred to the Angles as his foster parents.
In 1923, he married Vera Elizabeth Smock.
They had three children: Allan Junior., Donald, and Anna (Olson).
Career
Brodie returned to practice in Newark, but in 1929 he was invited by Dean Frederick Bogue Noyes came to the University of Illinois College of Dentistry to organize its Department of Orthodontics—one of the first graduate orthodontics departments established in the United States. The Journal of the Charles H. Tweed International Foundation called Doctor Noyes" hiring of Doctor Brodie the beginning of "the golden age of orthodontics," and considered the department under Doctor Brodie "the West Point of orthodontics." The Journal also noted that the establishment of the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Illinois College of Dentistry "marked the fulfillment of Doctor Angle"s lifelong ambition—to provide a broader and more scientific foundation for the practitioners of his specialty." Doctor Brodie ran the department until 1966, and was Dean of the College from 1944 to 1956, while also maintaining a private practice. Doctor Brodie received his Mississippi (Master of Science) degree in anatomy and histology from the University in 1934, and his Doctor of Philosophy in anatomy in 1940.
At the time of his death on January 2, 1976, Doctor Brodie was writing his own book on orthodontics.
In 2004, The Dentofacial Complex (International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) College of Dentistry Press) was published after being completed by alumni, faculty, and staff of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.