History Of Dent Flashcards
5600 BC
Tooth Worms as the cause of dental decay
2600 BC
Hes-Re from Egypt - first “dentist”
1700-1550 BC
“Ebers Papyrus” - diseases of the teethand various toothache remedies
500-300 BC
Hippocrates & Aristotle
Wrote a textbook about teeth eruption pattern, treating decay, gum diseases, extracting teeth with forceps, and stabilizing teeth and fractured jaws using wires
100 BC
Celsus
Wrote a compendium of medicine on oral hygiene, stabilization of loose teeth, treatment for toothache, teething pain, and jaw fractures
166-201 AD
ESTRUSCANS
Practiced dental prosthetics using gold crowns and fixed bridgewor
700
SILVERPASTE
A type of amalgam in China
500-1000
Guild of Barbers
Medicine surgery amd dentistry were practiced by monks
Surgeon - perform complex surgical operations
Lay barbers or barber - routine hygienic services like shaving bleeding and tooth extraction
1530
“Little medicinal book for all kinds of diseases amd infirmaries of the teeth”
Authored by Artzney Buchlein in Germany
First book devoted entirely to dentistry
Covers practical topics such as oral hygiene, tooth extraction, drilling teeth, placement of gold fillings
1575
Ambrose Pare
French surgeon
“Father of Surgery”
1723
PIERRE FAUCHARD
French surgeon
Father of Modern Dentistry
Published “The Surgeon Dentist, a Treatise on Teeth”
Introduced the idea of dental fillings and use of dental prosthesis, identified that acids are sugar led to tooth decay
1840
BALTIMORE COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY
World’s first dental school
Introduced Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree
Founded by Hayden and Horace Chapin Harris
Later on merged with the University of Maryland in 1923
1899
EDWARD HARTLY ANGLE
Classifies the various forms of dental malocclusion
Certified orthodontics into a dental specialty
Founded the first school of orthodontics, ANGLE SCHOOL OF ORTHODONTIA, St. Louis in 1900
Formed the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ORTHODONTICS IN 1901 – world’s first
dental society
Published AMERICAN ORTHODONTIST in 1907 – world first dental specialty journal
1908
GREEN VARDIMAN BLACK (G.V. BLACK)
Leading reformer and educator of American dentistry
Published “Operative Dentistry”
Developed techniques for filling teeth, standardizes operative procedures and instrumentation, develops an improved amalgam, pioneers the use of visual aids for teaching dentistry
1913
ALFRED C. FONES
Established CLINIC FOR FONES DENTAL HYGIENISTS – world’s first oral hygiene school
“Father of Dental Hygiene”