Development

in Dentistry
World
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Member of the group :

Amelia Roosanty
Almira Febryana
Ati Nurfadilah
Dita Mun Ningsih
Giandra Hasna Athaya
Maulida Nuur Ezzaty
Tessa Festiana
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History of dentistry
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1700-1550 BC
5000 BC
An Egyptian text, the Ebers
A Sumerian text of this Papyrus, refers to diseases of
ANCIENT ORIGINIS date describes “tooth the teeth and various
toothache remedies.
worms” as the cause of
dental decay.

166-201 AD
The Etruscans practice
dental prosthetics using
gold crowns and fixed
bridgework.
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1400
THE A series of royal decrees in
700
France prohibit lay barbers
BEGINNING OF A medical text in from practicing all surgical
PRFESSION – China mentions the procedures except
MIDDLE AGE use of “silver paste,” a bleeding, cupping, leeching,
type of amalgam. and extracting teeth.

1575
In France Ambrose Pare,
known as the Father of
Surgery, publishes his
Complete Works.
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Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon
publishes The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise
THE on Teeth (Le Chirurgien Dentiste).
1760
DEVELOPMENT John Baker, the earliest medically-
OF A trained dentist to practice in America,
PROFESSION immigrates from England and sets
up practice.
1789
Frenchman Nicolas Dubois de
Chemant receives the first patent
for porcelain teeth.
1790
John Greenwood, son of Isaac Greenwood and
one of George Washington’s dentists, constructs
the first known dental foot engine.
1866
Lucy Beaman Hobbs
graduates from the Ohio
College of Dental Surgery,
becoming the first
woman to earn a dental
degree.
1887
Stowe & Eddy Dental Laboratory,
the first successful industrial-type
laboratory in the U.S., opens in
Boston, marking the ascendancy of
the modern commercial dental
laboratory.
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1877
The Wilkerson chair, the first
pump-type hydraulic dental
chair, is introduced.
1895
Wilhelm Roentgen, a German
physicist, discovers the x-ray. In
1896 prominent New Orleans
dentist C. Edmond Kells takes the
first dental x-ray of a living person
in the U.S.
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Lucy Beaman Hobbs The Wilkerson chair

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Innovations in techniques and
technology – 19th century
1930 1960
1903 Sit down, four-handed
The American Board of
Charles Land devises the dentistry becomes
Orthodontics, the world’s
porcelain jacket crown. popular in the U.S. This
first dental specialty board,
is founded. technique improves
1911 productivity and
1949 shortens treatment time.
The U.S. Army Dental Corps is
Oskar Hagger, a Swiss Lasers are developed and
established as the first armed services
chemist, develops the first approved for soft tissue
dental corps in the U.S. The Navy
system of bonding acrylic work, such as treatment
institutes its Dental Corps in 1912.
resin to dentin. of periodontal disease.
1980 1998
Per-Ingvar Branemark The National Institute of Dental
describes techniques for Research is renamed National
the osseointegration of Institute of Dental and
dental implants. Craniofacial Research to more
accurately reflect the broad
research base that it has come to
support.
1997
FDA approves the erbium YAG
laser, the first for use on dentin, to
treat tooth decay.
Osseointegration of Dental Implants

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the Erbium YAG laser

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