Chairman of the Hall of Fame Committee Kevin Roach, a past PFA International President, has announced that his committee will be installing several dental leaders into the Hall of Fame this year and will be placing their plaques on the Wall of Fame in Paris, France. This installation will be done to clear the backlog of nominated and accepted professional greats of dentistry.
The first event will be held at the Union League Club of Philadelphia on May 12, 2007, to install Dr. Thomas W. Evans-- practitioner, inventor, and dentist to royalty.
The next Hall of Fame Ceremony is scheduled to be held in Adelaide, Australia, in June to honor Dr. Percy Raymond Begg, AO, BDSc, LDS, DDSc (1898-1983), of international orthodontic fame. A Hall of Fame plaque will be placed on the Wall of Fame in Paris, France, as well as at the Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, Maryland, and on the televideo station at the ADA Headquarters Building Library. Another plaque will be presented to the University of Adelaide School of Dentistry for their site.
On June 12, 2007, in Paris, France, International President William Winspear of Australia will officiate at the Ceremony at the Headquarters of the Conseil National de l'Ordre des Chirurgien Dentistes, where the primary site of the Wall of Fame is established. Assisting him will be International President-elect James Englander, International Trustee Emeritus Pierre Marois, International Trustee for Europe Hubert Ouvrard, PFA Section Chair for France Dean Marie-Laure Boy-Lafevre, past PFA President and Hall of Fame Chairman Kevin Roach, and other French dignitaries. The honored dental professionals will be formally installed on the International Wall of Fame during a reception in their honor.
On October 19, 2007, the Hall of Fame Committee, on behalf of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, will present Dr. Maynard Kiplinger Hine, DDS, MS (1907-1996), for Installation into the PFA International Hall of Fame at Indiana University School of Dentistry during their annual Homecoming Banquet. Nearly a century has passed since Dr. Hine was born to change the face of our profession. It is an honor to have him join the other greats of our profession in the PFA International Hall of Fame.
Dean Hine's favorite joke was saying that he grew up in Tuscola, Illinois, spent some time in Arcola, Illinois (down the road from Tuscola), and expected that his next stop would be Coca-Cola. But it was Champaign (at the University of Illinois).
Sometime this year, it is hoped to honor Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmed, the First Distinguished Dentist of India. Dr. Ahmed was an educator, a statesman, an author, Nestor and Dean of Dentistry. He is known as the ''Father of Dentistry in India.'' At some date chosen by the Indian PFA, Dr. Ahmed will be installed into the Pierre Fauchard Academy International Hall of Fame.
The Dental Council of India has discussed naming their new building Dr. R. Ahmed Hall.
The PFA International Hall of Fame was established so that Fellows in this global dental honor service organization might share the great tradition of those who have so ably served our profession. They gave until there was no more to give, and then continued to give of themselves. Few monuments honor such self-sacrifice in dentistry, and only those in the profession can recognize or understand what it took to continually make the effort to deliver the art and science of dentistry to the far reaches of this world, one small step at a time. The Fellows in the Pierre Fauchard Academy have been acknowledged as individuals that make those tiny steps to advance oral dental health to humanity. Part of their legacy is to kneel to those outstanding dental leaders in appreciation for all they have done to make our profession the service that it is today.
Thomas W. Evans
Thomas Evans was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1823, to Welsh Quakers. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice to a gold/silversmith in Philadelphia who made dental instruments. This brought him into contact with the leading dentists of the period. In those days, to become a dental practitioner, a person had to serve a 2- year apprenticeship with an established dentist. At the end of that time, if qualified, he would receive a Certificate of Dental Proficiency from his dental mentor. This was called a Preceptorship. Under Dr. John DeHaven White, Thomas Evans earned his right to practice dentistry in 1843.
Dr. Evans attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1844 and 1845, earning his surgery certificate. In 1850, Dr. Evans was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Dental Science from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and from the Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery (1853). Another honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine was presented to him by Washington University in Baltimore (1853) and another as a Doctor of Philosophy from Lafayette College.
Dr. Evans practiced for a short time in Baltimore before moving his practice to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There he established his reputation as an expert in the use of gold as a filling material in teeth. A demonstration of this technique at the annual exhibition of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia earned him their First Premium Recognition for his work.
In 1847, Dr. Evans moved to Paris to associate with Dr. C. Starr Brewster, an American dentist practicing in France. In 1850, he opened his own practice in Paris for the next 50 years. One day in 1849, the French Second Republic (1848- 1852) Prince-President Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, asked that Dr. Evans see him for professional services. After that event, the two became fast friends, often seeing one another as friends, confidants, and professionally. When the Prince-President became Emperor Napoleon III of the Second Empire in 1852, he officially appointed his friend Dr. Evans Surgeon-Dentist to the Imperial Court on an equal status with the Physicians of the Court.
Their relationship was so close, the Emperor sent Dr. Evans on a diplomatic mission toWashington, DC, during the Civil War. The Emperor was under pressure from Great Britain to recognize the Confederacy, which might have initiated a peace settlement. Dr. Evans talked with President Lincoln, General Grant, and other northern government officials and toured several battlefields. Upon his return to Paris, he advised the Emperor that the Union was likely to win the outcome. Thus the Emperor did not commit France to recognizing the Confederate States of America. This close relationship continued until the Franco-Prussian War, when the Emperor was defeated at Sedan and taken prisoner. Thus fell the Second Empire of France in 1870. When the news of the disastrous defeat reached Paris, rioting brought down the Senate and a new republic was formed.
Empress Eugenie and Madame Lebreton fled the palace, then under siege, to Dr. Evans' home. Dr. Evans smuggled the two women out of Paris to Deauville through the frenzied mobs to safety.
Even with his activity for the Imperial French Court, Dr. Evans was busy developing new dental materials and technology. Among some of his successful achievements were vulcanized rubber as a base plate material, inventing an articulator, and demonstrating the use of nitrous oxide as a general anesthetic. He also was involved in investigating pathology and preserving many pathological specimens.
Dr. Thomas Evans was the first American dentist to achieve an international reputation. He earned the French Cross of the Legion of Honor--the first American to be so honored, and some 56 other decorations and awards by various European monarchs.
After his death in 1897, through his will, Dr. Evans provided for formation of the ThomasW. Evans Museum and Institute Society in Philadelphia, which is now on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
Percy Raymond Begg
Dr. Percy Raymond Begg was born in a tent in the gold fields of Coolgardie, Australia, on October 13, 1898, the son of accountant and business manager Percy William Begg and his wife Fannie Elizabeth (nee Jacob). In 1900, the family moved to Adelaide, where Percy Raymond attended Pulteney Grammar School and then St. Peter's College. It was there that he was a classmate of Nobel Prize winner Howard Florey.
In 1923, he received his Bachelor of Dental Science from the University of Melbourne and spent 2 years at the Angle School of Orthodontia in Pasadena, California, under Dr. Edward Angle, the ''Father of Modern Orthodontia.'' Dr. Begg was well educated with the latest information on orthodontic appliances when he returned to Australia to open his orthodontic practice in Adelaide. He remained the only orthodontist in Adelaide until 1951. In January of 1929, Dr. Begg began teaching orthodontics while at the same time holding positions of Honourary Dental Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital and Lecturer in Orthodontics at the University of Adelaide. On April 26, 1928, he married Evelyn Ellen (Nellie) Hamilton and proceeded to raise three children.
For about 2 years, Dr. Begg faithfully followed Dr. Angle's teaching philosophy in retaining the full complement of teeth. However, he was confronted with evidence of serious relapse in many of his patients. Dr. Begg began the routine removal of teeth in February 1928. Dr. Begg had developed his own research philosophy of the now famous studies of Stone Age man's attritional occlusion of the teeth. Dr. Begg was a dedicated clinician who had an extraordinary memory and a vision of orthodontics, which stamped him as aman ahead of his time. The situations he encountered in using the edgewise appliance to close extraction spaces and to reduce deep anterior overbites prompted the evolution of the Begg technique during the next 20 years. In 1920, he began using round arch wire. By 1933, he stopped using edgewise brackets for the angle ribbon arch bracket, with the openings of the slots facing gingival rather than incisally/occlusally. In 1934, Dr. Begg treated his first planned eight-tooth extraction case with the removal of the four first premolars and the four first permanent molars. The spring quality of the round stainless steel wire then available was a great improvement over the rectangle gold-platinum wire.
Early in the 1940s, Dr. Begg became acquainted with Arthur Wilcock, a metallurgist from Melbourne, and after a few years they produced a unique stainless steel wire that combined particular features of hardness and resilience. In 1954, Dr. Begg, Arthur Wilcock, and Professor J.N. Greenwood, a specialist in metallurgy research, started using titanium wire in their treatment of patients. During the next 29 years, these technical and clinical innovations were demonstrated to the profession. Orthodontics had become his consuming interest. Even until his last year in practice at the age of 82, Dr. Begg began treatment on his last patient and was still writing articles for publication. Dr. Percy Raymond Begg passed from this life on January 18, 1983, at the age of 84.
Dr. Begg scribed his first publication in 1926. His subsequent articles reflected his interest in normal occlusion and the etiology of malocclusion. The University of Adelaide conferred a Doctorate of Dental Science on him in 1935. His dissertation was Some Aspects of the Etiology of Irregularity and Malocclusion of the Teeth. He then wrote an outstanding series of articles for the American Journal of Orthodontics on ''Stone Age Man's Dentition'' and ''Light Arch Wire Technique'' from 1954 to 1956 that revolutionized the specialty and cemented his name as an orthodontist of international renown. Three editions of his textbook Begg Orthodontic Theory and Technique were translated into five languages.
A permanent display of the Begg Technique appears in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and in the Library of the American Dental Association in Chicago, Illinois.
The Adelaide Dental Hospital is the site of the Begg Memorial, an exhibition of Dr. Begg's surgery equipment, appliances, and patient records. Dr. Begg was a founding member of the Australian Society of Orthodontists in 1927. The American Association of Orthodontists honored Dr. Begg in 1977 with their Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award. The Australian government conferred upon him the award of Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in June 1981 for his distinguished service of a high degree to Australia and to humanity at large.
Percy Raymond Begg was a brilliant orthodontist who discovered a unique method of moving teeth. He provided many thousands of children and adults with amazing corrections of their dental and facial deformities. His work continues to benefit patients all over the world because he was so exuberant in sharing his knowledge with our profession globally. Today we routinely accept his innovations and techniques as state-of-the-art, but when he pioneered this work it was unique and novel.
The Pierre Fauchard Academy is truly honored to present the first distinguished Australian Dentist for induction into the PFA International Hall of Fame of Dentistry.
Maynard Kiplinger Hine, DDS, MS
Dr. Maynard Hine was one of the nation's most innovative pioneers in dental education, a respected authority in dental science, and a distinguished leader of organized dentistry.
He was the son of general practitioner Dr. Clyde Hine of Tuscola, Illinois, where he grew up. Born in Waterloo, Indiana, on August 25, 1907, the family moved to Tuscola.
In addition to earning his Dental Degree at the University of Illinois, Maynard earned his Masters Degree there in 1932. He practiced with his father for a time before being awarded a Carnegie Fellowship (1935) and a Rockefeller Fellowship (1936) to attend the University of Rochester in New York. He then returned to the University of Illinois as a teacher of oral pathology for 8 years.
Dr. Hine joined the Indiana University in 1944 as Chairman of Oral Histopathology and Periodontics. In 1945, he was appointed Dean, a position he held for 23 years. He became the longest-serving Dean in the history of the Indiana University School of Dentistry and its predecessor, the Indiana Dental College.
During his tenure as Dean, the Indiana University School of Dentistry underwent an enormous growth spurt. IU developed a reputation for excellence for its academic and research programs in such areas as clinical dentistry and dental materials. In the Dental Materials Department, the late Ralph W. Phillips guided the program to one of national prominence, to the point that many dental schools used his textbook for their courses (as did your editor, who was Associate Professor of the Loyola School of Dentistry Dental Materials Department).
Dean Hine recruited such dental education luminaries as oral pathologist William G. Shafer, prosthodontist John F. Johnston, and periodontist Timothy J. O'Leary. Dr. Hine established IU's Dental Hygiene Program in 1950 and the Department of Endodontics in 1953.
Dr. Hine was President of the ADA from 1965 to 1966 and was a strong advocate for water supply fluoridation and improving children's oral health. He presided over the 1966 dedication ceremonies when the ADA moved into its headquarters at 211 E. Chicago Avenue in Chicago, where it is today. Dr. Hine also was an active leader in organized dentistry.
After his retirement as IU Dean in 1968, Dr. Hine became the first Chancellor of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus (IUPUI). He served from 1969 until 1973 in that position. Dr. Hine established the American Fund for Dental Health and served as its first President. He had been President of many organizations including the International Association for Dental Research, the American Association of Endodontists, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American Association of Dental Editors, the American Academy of Periodontology, the Federation Dentaire Internationale, and the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. He was Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science serving as a Chair for one of its Dental Sections.
Dr. Hine served as President of the Indiana State Dental Association (now the Indiana Dental Association). He was also President of the Indianapolis District Dental Society, and presided over the Central Indiana Council on Aging. He chaired the Executive Board of the Indiana State Board (now Department) of Health.
Dr. Hine was a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.
Dr. Hine coauthored five books, including his best-known and highly regarded A Textbook of Oral Pathology by Shafer, Hine, and Levy. Dr. Hine was also Editor of the Journal of Periodontology from 1950 to 1970.
Dr. Maynard Hine received many honorary doctoral degrees, awards, honors, and other citations during his long and active professional career. He held the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Periodontology and the 1968 Pierre Fauchard Gold Medal. Distinguished service awards were received from the ADA, IDA, and Thomas Hinman Society, and he received the William Gies Award from the ACD, the Edgar Coolidge Award from the American Association of Endodontists, an Honorary Membership in the American Academy of Dental Science, and Honorary Fellowships in the American College of Surgeons (Ireland), the Philippine College of Oral Surgeons, and the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.
In 1974, Indiana University established the Maynard K. Hine Award for distinguished IU Alumni Association outstanding contributors. Many other IU research and scholarship awards and programs are named in his honor.
Dr. George K. Stookey, IU's acting Dean for the School of Dentistry, stated that Dr. Hine was ''recognized worldwide for his remarkable vision for the dental profession, as well as his outstanding leadership. Dr. Hine developed the Indiana School of Dentistry into one the leading dental schools in the world. His name has become synonymous with Indiana University, the School of Dentistry, and excellence in both teaching and in research.''
Dr. Maynard K. Hine's career spanned nearly seven decades. Professor Emeritus in periodontics Dr. Hine remained ardently committed to the dental profession. He passed away on November 23, 1996.
Rafiuddin Ahmed, DDS
Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmed was born on December 24, 1890, in Bardhanpara, East Bengal, India. He graduated from Aligarh University in 1908. By the next year, he left for the United States by working his passage over.He enrolled in the University of Iowa School of Dentistry, earning his dental degree in 1915. Dr. Ahmed then worked in the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children in Boston, Massachusetts, until 1918. In 1919, he returned to India to open a dental practice in Calcutta.
In 1920, Dr. Ahmed founded the First Dental College of India, which was financed by starting the New York Soda Fountain in Calcutta. Dr. Ahmed published the First Student's Handbook on Operative Dentistry in 1928.
The First Dental College of India affiliated with the StateMedical Facility in 1936, and then with the University of Calcutta in 1949. In that same year, Dr. Ahmed donated his First Dental College of India to the West Bengal government. Dr. Ahmed served as the Principal of the College from 1920 to 1950.
Dr. Ahmed's philosophy was: ''Education is the responsibility of the State; but if no one is willing to carry the cross, I will, for as long as I can.''
In 1925, Dr. Ahmed established the Bengal Dental Association, which became the forerunner for the Indian Dental Association (which he also organized in 1928). He served three terms as President of the Indian Dental Association from 1945 to 1948.
He also established the Indian Dental Journal in 1925 and was its Editor until 1946. He also served on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, the PFA's Dental World/Dental Survey, and other publications.
Dr. Ahmed helped to form the Bengal Dentists Act in 1939. This was the first dental governmental regulation in India and it became the model for the Indian Dental Act passed in 1948. Dr. R. Ahmed was the first elected President of the India Dental Council, serving from 1954 to 1958.
Dr. Ahmed was awarded a Fellowship in the International College of Dentists in 1947 and Fellowships in the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Pierre Fauchard Academy in 1949. In 1964, the Indian government awarded him the Padma Bhushan, a rare and coveted honor never before presented to a dentist. Dr. Ahmed was the first Indian to have achieved such status.
Dr. Ahmed served as a Councillor and Alderman of the Calcutta Corporation from 1932 to 1944. In 1950, he became a Minister in the West Bengal government and was supervisor for the Departments of Agriculture, Community Development, Co-operation, Relief, and Rehabilitation until 1962.
Dr. Ahmed earned many honors and memorial tributes, of which inscription on the ICD Memorial Roll in 1965 was a particularly special tribute. The Indian Dental Association recognized his many contributions to Indian dentistry by establishing the Dr. R. Ahmed Memorial Oration at the 1977 Annual Indian Dental Conference. The Pierre Fauchard Academy dedicated its 1987 quarterly PFA Journal in Dr. Ahmed's memory, and the University of Iowa School of Dentistry Alumni Association presented their First Distinguished International Alumnus Award to him in 1989.
Today, Dr. R. Ahmed is remembered as the Nestor and Dean of Dentistry, Dental Education, and the Dental Profession in India. He died on January 18, 1965.