Media Archive
The Guardian Australia—
Oral history: how Tick Begg revolutionised braces and made 1920s Adelaide ‘the orthodontic centre of the world’
ABC Radio National: The Drawing Room—
How a South Australian dentist revolutionised the world of orthodontics.
If you're afraid of going to the dentist think of all the barbaric practices that were quietly improved upon to give us the modern dentistry you have today.
On King William Street in Adelaide, there's a curious little museum that's only open by appointment. It's called the PR Begg Museum and it explains the little known history of how one South Australian dentist single-handedly revolutionised the field of Orthodontics. Tick Begg as he was known, challenged the orthodoxy of the day creating what we now know are dental braces.
ABC Radio Adelaide: Afternoons—
Wayne Sampson talks about how the impact of P R Begg on orthodontics, and his enduring legacy
Nikolai Beilharz from ABC Radio Adelaide Afternoons talks with Wayne Sampson about P R Begg and the museum.