Chapter One - History Of Dentistry Flashcards
Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association
Commission that accredits Dental? Dental assisting, dental hygiene, and dental laboratory educational programs.
Dental treatise (TREE-tis)
Formal article or book based on Dental evidence and facts.
Forensic (fuh-REN-zik) dentistry
Areas of dentistry that establishes the identify of an individual on the basis of Dental evidence such as dental records, impressions, bite marks, and so forth.
Periodontal (per-ee-oe-DON-tul) disease
Infections and other conditions of the structures that support the teeth (gums and bone)
Preceptorship (PREE-sep-tor-ship)
Study under the guidance of a dentist or other professional
Saint Apollonia
Recognized as the patroness of dentistry
Silver amalgam (uh-MAL-gum)
A mixture of mercury, silver, and tin
Teledentistry
The process of using electronic transfer of images and other information for consultation and/or insurance purposes in dentistry
Who was Hesi-Re?
He was the earliest dentist whose name is known. He practiced about 3000 bc and was called “Chief of the toothed and the physicians”
How long has Dental disease existed?
As long as 4600 hundred years ago
Who was the “father of Medicine”
Hippocrates
What is Hippocratic law?
A solemn obligation to refrain from wrongdoing and to treat patients with confidentiality and to the best of ones ability, still serves as the basis of the code of ethics for medical and dental professions
Who is the Patroness of Dentistry
Saint Apollonia. She was one of a groups of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians before the persecution of Decius. According to legend, her Tories included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered.
Were the Western dentists the first to use silver amalgam as fillings?
It was the Chinese. The Chinese developed silver amalgam paste for fillings, more than a thousand years before dentists in the West used a similar substance.
Which artist first distinguished molars from premolars?
Leonardo da Vinci
