Dental Communications /Treatment Coordinating. Chapters 1-5

Question 1

The first dental college was established in 1840 by

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Hayden and Harris

Question 2

Paul Revere

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He is credited with establishing the science of forensic dentistry.

Question 3

Lucy B. Hobbs Taylor

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the first woman to graduate from a U.S. dental school

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The earliest known dentist was from

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Egypt (Hesi-re). The first dental practitioner

Question 5

What contributions did Pierre Fauchard make to advance the science of dentistry?

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He dispelled the myths regarding tooth decay.

Question 6

The focus and maintenance of the work of Dr. Deborah Greenspan is in the topic of

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HIV/AIDS and Epstein-Barr virus.

Question 7

The first school of dentistry to accept African American students was

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Harvard

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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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He was the first to differentiate between molars and premolars

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Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and sketched every part of the human body

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Ambroise Paré

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the father of modern surgery

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Pierre Fauchard

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the founder of modern dentistry.
He developed dentistry as a profession independent from medicine

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Robert Woofendale

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one of the first dentists in the colonies

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Isaac Greenwood

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the first native-born American dentist.
He studied under Dr. John Baker

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John Greenwood

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the second son of Isaac Greenwood. Dentist to George Washington.

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G.V. Black

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Grand Old Man of Dentistry. Black standardized the rules of cavity preparation and fillings.
He developed the principle of “extension for prevention”.

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Dr. Wells

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a dentist, is credited with the discovery of inhalation anesthesia in 1844.
He realized the potential for pain-free dentistry through the use of nitrous oxide.

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Emeline Robert Jones

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the first woman dentist in the United States

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Ida Gray

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the first black woman in the country to earn a formal DDS degree and the first black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago

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Robert Tanner Freeman

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the first black student in Harvard University in 1867

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Dr. George Blue Spruce, Jr.

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the first American Indian dentist in the United States

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Jessica A. Rickert

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the first recognized American Indian female dentist in 1975

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C. Edmund Kells

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a New Orleans dentist, is credited with using the first dental assistant.
A dental assistant was a “lady in attendance,” making it respectable for women patients to go into a dental office unaccompanied.

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Hazel O. Torres and Ann Ehrlich

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Coauthored Modern Dental Assisting in 1976

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Irene Newman

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the first person to be trained as a dental hygienist in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the early 1900s

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Dr. Fones

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opened the first school for dental hygienists in 1913

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Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) of the American Dental Association

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sets standards and accredits dental education programs