Contribution by Robert Murray Ricketts

Scholars emerge time to time to lay down scientific principles and crystallize their information which acts as stepping stone for their followers. such an eminent scholar was Dr. Robert Murray Ricketts, whose influence continues to contribute to our understanding of the biologic and mechanical enigmas that challeges us as orthodontists.Dr. Ricketts was a pioneer in early treatment and facial orthopedics, temporomandibular joint tomography and therapies, esthetics and golden proportions, orthodontics sectional biomechanics with biologic and physiologic emphasis, lateral and frontal facial analysis, asymmetry, nutritional influences, airways, anthropology and more.His contributions to orthodontics are significant and this is just an attempt to enumerate his major contributions to the field of orthodontics.