Lawrence Frederick Andrews DDS

Dr. Lawrence Frederick Andrews is a Co-director of the Lawrence F. Andrews Foundation. Dr. Lawrence F. Andrews completed orthodontic training at Ohio State University in 1958. He is the inventor of the Straight-Wire Appliance System and discoverer of the Six Keys to Normal (Optimal) Occlusion and the Six Elements of Orofacial Harmony. In 1989, he authored the textbook “Straight-Wire, The Concept, and Appliance”. He is a clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco, an adjunct professor at West Virginia University, and a visiting professor at Bauru Dental School, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2005, he was the recipient of the PCSO Lifetime Achievement Award. He has lectured worldwide about the Six Keys to Optimal Occlusion, the Straight-Wire Concept, and Appliance, 6E Orthodontic Philosophy, and maintains a private practice limited to orthodontics and orofacial harmony in San Diego, California.