Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide ‘the orthodontic centre of the world’

A South Australian museum honours the man who changed the way dentistry was done on a global scale'

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 pelican" - a crude beak-like shank - or lever it out with an iron tooth key". By the 17th century they might just knock it out with a steel punch elevator.