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Since when has dental disease been treated?
prehistoric
times
According to primitive historic records, what are some ways
people treated oral pain?
Incantations,
chemical and vegetable plasters, and various rinses to treat oral pain.
What were early substitutes
for natural teeth made of?
First, of
bones and teeth of animals; and then from mother-of-pearl, ivory and jeweler's
enamel baked on carved bone or metal tooth
plates.
When did medical doctors start studying the mouth more
seriously?
mid-eighteenth
century
Who is considered to be the Father of Modern Dentistry?
Pierre
Fauchard
When was the first textbook (Le Chirurgien Dentiste) about
dentistry published?
1728
When did dentistry first arrive in America? (HINT: George
Washington was among the most famous of early dental patients
for whom prosthetic teeth were made.)
~1766
Who was the dentist to take cases from other dentists and,
hence, establish the first commercial dental lab in America?
Dr. Stowe
began taking cases from others in 1883; in 1887, he opened a dental laboratory.
What was the name of the first commercial dental lab in
America?
Stowe and
Eddy; because Dr. Stowe was later joined by his cousin, Frank Eddy.
By what year were most dental labs managed by dental
technicians?
1910
What is the NADL?
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