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History of dentistry
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5000 BC
1700-1550 BC
A Sumerian text of this An Egyptian text, the Ebers
ANCIENT ORIGINIS date describes “tooth Papyrus, refers to diseases of
worms” as the cause of the teeth and various
toothache remedies.
dental decay.
166-201 AD
The Etruscans practice
dental prosthetics using
gold crowns and fixed
bridgework.
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1400
THE A series of royal decrees in
700
France prohibit lay barbers
BEGINNING OF A medical text in from practicing all surgical
PRFESSION – China mentions the procedures except
MIDDLE AGE use of “silver paste,” a bleeding, cupping, leeching,
type of amalgam. and extracting teeth.
1575
In France Ambrose Pare,
known as the Father of
Surgery, publishes his
Complete Works.
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Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon
publishes The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise
THE on Teeth (Le Chirurgien Dentiste).
1760
DEVELOPMENT John Baker, the earliest medically-
OF A trained dentist to practice in America,
PROFESSION immigrates from England and sets
up practice.
1789
Frenchman Nicolas Dubois de
Chemant receives the first patent
for porcelain teeth.
1790
John Greenwood, son of Isaac Greenwood and
one of George Washington’s dentists, constructs
the first known dental foot engine.
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1801
1832
Richard C. Skinner writes the James Snell invents the first
ADVANCES IN Treatise on the Human Teeth, the reclining dental chair.
first dental book published in
SCIENCE AND America.
EDUCATION –
18th CENTURY 1840
Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris found 1859
the world’s first dental school, the Twenty-six dentists meet in
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and Niagara Falls, New York, and
establish the Doctor of Dental Surgery form the American Dental
(DDS) degree. (The school merges with Association
the University of Maryland in 1923).
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1877
Lucy Beaman Hobbs
graduates from the Ohio The Wilkerson chair, the first
College of Dental Surgery, pump-type hydraulic dental
becoming the first chair, is introduced.
woman to earn a dental
degree.
1887 1895
Stowe & Eddy Dental Laboratory, Wilhelm Roentgen, a German
the first successful industrial-type physicist, discovers the x-ray. In
laboratory in the U.S., opens in 1896 prominent New Orleans
Boston, marking the ascendancy of dentist C. Edmond Kells takes the
the modern commercial dental first dental x-ray of a living person
laboratory. in the U.S.
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the Erbium YAG laser
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