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  • saint apolloniSaint Apollonia

    • Long before there was any dental profession, men and women who were experiencing dental pain would call upon St. Apollonia , the patron saint of dentistry...

  • operative dentistryOperative Dentistry

    • During the mid-1800s, the field of operative dentistry encompassed all of chairside dentistry. In an 1889 textbook, "Operative Dentistry," 1 oral surgery and fixed prosthodontics were still included in the area of operative dentistry...

  • leech therapyLeech Therapy

    • Bloodletting is an ancient procedure that was utilized for curing the ills of man. This article traces the use of leeches for bloodletting therapy from ancient Greek times to the Chapin Harris era in the 1840s to modern day usage by plastic surgeons...

  • dental office displaysDental Office Displays

    • Two new displays of historical dental offices have been arranged and displayed by Dr. Samuel Wexler of Richmond, Illinois...

  • fauchard and obturatorsFauchard and Obturators

    • The design and fabrication of oral appliances to replace parts of the palate missing due to congenital defects or lost through tumours, infection or trauma has been a considerable challenge for clinicians throughout the history of dentistry...

  • argentinian dentistryArgentinian Dentistry

    • The history of the legal practice of dentistry in the Rio de la Plata region is given. The first diplomas were given in 1891 by the Medical Tribunal, before the creation of the dental school in Buenos Aires...

  • dr. charles stentDr. Charles Stent

    • What is generally unknown is that the word "stent" derives from the name of an English dentist, who invented this impression compound in 1856...

  • connections dentistryConnections Dentistry

    • Ever since the early days of the dental profession in the United States, practicing dentists have recognized the relationship between dentistry and medicine...

  • the "amex" dentureThe "Amex" Denture

    • In 1917-18, the U.S. Army revived a denture technique first introduced in 1866 by Dr. James Baxter Bean, the Confederate dental surgeon who established the first military maxillofacial hospital trauma ward...

  • women in dentistryWomen in Dentistry

    • Regardless of the fact that females have been present in every field of universal knowledge, history bears little trace of this fact...

  • the general dentistThe General Dentist

    • The early 1960's were years of transition for the dentist practicing general dentistry That which began to occur at this time would have occurred about ten years earlier if it wasn't for the Second World War...

  • man and painMan and Pain

    • Man and pain have coexisted since man's creation - it is one of the most basic human experiences. Pain is a protective signal acquired spontaneously early in childhood...

  • dental filling materialsDental Filling Materials

    • The mid-1800s were innovative and volatile times, both in the development of the United States and in dentistry. The political and social manifestation of this unrest was the Civil War...

  • titanic medical careTitanic Medical Care

    • There were medical facilities on the ship comparable to most state-of-the-art small hospitals in the United States and Britain, where the sick and injured could be treated...

  • basil manly wilkersonBasil Manly Wilkerson

    • Basil Manly Wilkerson, an 1868 graduate of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, was a prominent dental inventor of the 19th century. Among his inventions was the first hydraulic dental chair and one of the first air-driven turbine handpieces...

  • guiseppangelo fonziGiuseppangelo Fonzi

    • The use of porcelain in dental art dates back to the middle of the 18th century. An apothecary at Saint Germain-en-Laye by the name of Duchateau is the first to have been known to manufacture prostheses...

  • veterinary dentistryVeterinary Dentistry

    • The following offers a description of the beginnings of veterinary dentistry and the recent history and advancement of the profession will be explored...

  • augusto coelho e souzaAugusto Coelho e Souza

    • Just as Hippocrates (480-370 BC) is considered the "Father of Medicine" and Pierre Fauchard (1678-1761) is regarded as the "Father of Modern Dentistry" so is Augusto Coelho e Souza (1863-1949) honored as the "Father of Brazilian Dentistry"...

  • Vida A. LathamVida A. Latham

    • Vida Annette Latham came from her native England to the United States in order to continue her studies of dentistry and medicine...

  • who is pierre fauchardWho is Pierre Fauchard?

    • It was between 1650 and 1800 that the science of modern dentistry developed. And in 1728 Pierre Fauchard, who was widely acknowledged as the "Father of Modern Dentistry" published "LeChirurgien Dentiste"...