Rolf Fränkel
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Dr. Rolf Fränkel (29 March 1908 – 9 September 2001) was a German Orthodontist who is known for developing the Frankel appliance.[1]
Life
He was born in
He died in Zwickau, Germany, at the age of 93 years. He is survived by his wife, Else. Dr. Fränkel and his wife had two Christine Fränkel and Sibylle Fränkel.
Functional Activator Appliance
In his practice, Dr. Fränkel had used the activator functional appliance and experienced mixed results with this appliance. He believed that a treatment outcome is more stable if the functional deviations of muscles are also corrected along with dentition. Therefore, through his work he developed an approach which allowed the maxillary and mandibular muscles to play an important part in an orthodontic treatment. He achieved that through development of functional regulator appliances. These appliances allowed him to train and reprogram the musculature around the mouth. He published around 70 articles which stressed the importance of his appliance in expanding the dental arches.[3]
He first introduced his functional orthopedic approach in 1966 at a meeting for European Orthodontic Society. Fraenkel appliances were never used in practice among orthodontists, except in Eastern Germany in the seventies and eighties of the last century. Although Fraenkel became very popular in orthodontic science. The rising of popularity is the outcome of his successful public relations work at meetings and in leading orthodontic journals.(4)
Awards
- University of Erfurt, Professor of Medicine, 1973
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Honorary Doctorate, 1990
- Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellow, 1992
- Albert H. Ketcham Award, 1995
Also
References
- ^ McNamara, James (2001). "Rolf Fränkel" (PDF). AJODO. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ Gottlieb, Eugene. "JCO Interviews Dr. James McNamara, Jr., on the Fränkel Appliance, Part 1: Biological Basis and Appliance Design". JCO. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ McNamara, James (2001). "Rolf Fränkel" (PDF). AJODO. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
(4) Goehler, M.: The evolution of functional orthodontics in Germany and the contribution of the Zwickau orthodontist Rolf Fraenkel, Dresden, 2000