History Of Dental Flashcards
Hippocrates
460-377 BC
Father of medicine
Described the teeth and their development and eruption and even developed mouthwash and dentifrice
Hippocratic oath
Medical doctors and dentist pledged themselves to this oath, which entails being honorable, responsible, and to do no harm
Cornelius Celsus
25 BC-50 AD
Wrote a digestive medical and surgical science
Leonardo Da Vinci
The first differentiate between molars and premolars
Ambroise Paré
The father of modern surgery. He began his career and 1525 as an apprentice to a barber surgeon.
Pierre Fauchard
Known as the father of modern dentistry. He developed dentistry as a profession independent from medicine. He came up with the title of surgeon dentist. In the United States, the degree conferred on dentists either doctor of dental surgery or doctor of dental medicine.
John Baker MD
Practice dentistry in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Paul Revere
The famous colonial patriot was a silversmith who became a dentist. He is a credited as a first use forensic dental evidence to identify a corpse. The body of Dr. Joseph Warren who was killed during the battle of Bunker Hill.
Isaac Greenwood
The first native born Americans dentist. He studied under Dr. John Baker. His son, John Greenwood, became a dentist as well.
Horace Hayden and Chaplin A Harris
They establish the first dental college. The Baltimore college of dental surgery. Today the college is known as the University of Maryland dental school.
Dr. Green Vardiman Black
Known worldwide GV black, Dr. Green are in the title of the grand old man of dentistry. He taught in dental school, became a Dean, and wrote more than 500 articles and several books. Dr. black standardized the rules of cavity preparation and feelings. He developed the principle of extension for prevention.
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Was a Bavarian physicist who discovered x-rays, radiographs in 1895. The first x-rays were called roentgenograms. He was awarded a Nobel prize.
Dr Horace Wells
Credited with the discovery of inhalation anesthesia in 1844. This was one of the most important medical discoveries of all time. He realize the potential for pain-free dentistry through the use of nitrous oxide.
Lucy B Hobbs Taylor
Apprentice for a sympathetic dentist in Cincinnati for two years. She applied to the Ohio college of dental surgery and 1861 and was denied entry on the basis of her gender. She started to practice in Cincinnati, but then move to Iowa where she was practicing during the Civil War. She was admitted to the Ohio College a dental surgery in November 1865 and awarded her DDS in 1866. She was the first woman to graduate from dental school.
Ida Gray Rollins
Was the first black woman in the country to earn a formal DDS degree and the first black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago. She graduated from the University of Michigan school of dentistry and practice dentistry in Chicago until she retired in 1928.
