Henry Albert Baker
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Henry Albert Baker | |
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| Born | November 27, 1848 |
| Died | April 24, 1934 (aged 85) Hillsborough, New Hampshire |
| Education | Boston College of Dentistry |
| Known for | Developed Baker Anchorage and discovered the intermaxillary elastics for the field of Orthodontics |
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| Profession | Dentist |
| Sub-specialties | Orthodontics |
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Henry Albert Baker (November 27, 1848 – April 24, 1934) was an American orthodontist who was known to introduce orthodontics to the use of intermaxilary elastics. He is also known for the Baker anchorage.[1]
Henry Albert Baker was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1848. His ancestors were Captain John Lowell, an Indian Fighter and Hannah Dustin. He grew up at his family farm in his early years. He eventually attended Geisel School of Medicine . In 1873, he started practicing dentistry in Woodstock, Vermont. He formed the Vermont State Dental Society in 1876 and served its vice-president. He then went to Boston Dental College and graduated from there in 1879. Baker was known for his work with the patients with Cleft Lip and Palate deformities.[2]
In 1874 he married Julia Willis and had two sons: Lawrence Willis Baker and Warren Stearns Baker. Lawrence followed his father's footsteps where he became an Orthodontic Professor at Harvard Dental School and Warren died in his early manhood years.
After her death in 1918, Baker retired to Hillsborough, New Hampshire. He died there in 1934.[3]
