History

Question 1

Who was the earliest known dentist?

Answer 1

Hesi-Ra (Egyptian)

Question 2

Who developed the first known silver-paste amalgam

Answer 2

The Chinese

Question 3

Realized the importance of cleaning teeth

Answer 3

Hippocrates

Question 4

Founder of modern Dentistry, created the term Caries and rejected idea that worms caused decay

Answer 4

Pierre Fauchard

Question 5

First dentist in the USA (also one of George washingtons dentist)

Answer 5

John Baker

Question 6

The first person to name all the teeth we know today

Answer 6

John Hunter

Question 7

Dentist of George Washington

Answer 7

John Greenwood

Question 8

Introduced Paris to amalgam

Answer 8

M.Taveau

Question 9

First to use nitrous oxide to relieve pain

Answer 9

Horace Wells

Question 10

First woman dentist

Answer 10

Lucy b Hobbs taylor

Question 11

“Grand old man of dentistry” perfected amalgam

Answer 11

G.v Black

Green Vardiman

Question 12

Discovered x-rays

Died of x-ray exposure nov18th 1895 (same year he discovered them due to so much exposure)

Answer 12

William Conrad roentgen

Question 13

First dentist to hire a lady assistant

Answer 13

C.edmund Kells

Question 14

Founder of the ADAA (American dental assistant association 1924)

Answer 14

Juliette southard

Question 15

What was the first dental school in the world?

Answer 15

Baltimore college of dentistry

Question 16

Who used bore hair as a primitive form of the toothbrush?

Answer 16

Islamic

Question 17

Who used gold to restore decayed tooth?

Answer 17

Romans (etruscans)

Question 18

Who thought men had more teeth than women?

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

Who discovered that each tooth had its own individual nerve?

Answer 19

Claudius Galen

Question 20

Who was famous for his writings on extractions?

Answer 20

Ambroise Pare