SAS5 Timeline of Dental History: Advances in Science and Education Flashcards
The world‟s first dental journal that began publication in 1839
The American Journal of Dental Science
He invents the vulcanization process for hardening rubber.
Charles Goodyear
an inexpensive material easily molded to the mouth, makes an excellent base for false teeth, and
is soon adopted for use by dentists.
Vulcanite
In 1864 the molding process for
vulcanite dentures is patented, but the dental profession fights the
onerous licensing fees for the next– how many years?
25 years
The world’s first dental school
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery
is a chemical process for converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable materials via the addition of sulfur or other equivalent curatives or accelerators.
Vulcanization
Founders of the world’s first dental school and established the Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree.
Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris
The world’s first dental school (Baltimore College of Dental Surgery) merges with WHAT university in WHAT year?
University of Maryland in 1923
the world’s first national dental organization is founded in 1840. But the organization dissolves
in 1856.
American Society of Dental Surgeons
The state that enacts the first dental practice act in 1841, regulating dentistry in the United States. The act called for the assignment of a dentist to the state‟s medical board in order to grant licenses for practicing dentistry in the state,
however, the act was never enforced, few dentists are ever assigned a seat on the medical board and only a couple of dental licenses are ever granted during the forty years it was on the books.
Alabama
a Connecticut dentist who discovers that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthesia and successfully uses it to conduct several extractions in his private practice.
Horace Wells
Gas can be used as an anesthesia aka Laughing Gas
Nitrous Oxide
a student of Wells that conducts the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether anesthesia for surgery.
Dentist William Morton
a physician who later claims
he used ether as an anesthetic in an operation as early as 1842,
but he did not publish his work.
Crawford Long
In 1859, dentists meet in Niagara Falls, New York and form what association
American Dental Association
