Beruflich Dokumente
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References
http://www.namibiadent.com/
History/HistoryDentistry.html
http://www.pda.ph/history
Ancient Origins
• 7000 BC – First evidence of Dentistry
• 5000 BC - “tooth worms” as the cause of
dental decay.
• 2600 BC - Death of Hesy-Re
• 1800 BC - In the 18th century BC, the
Code of Hammurabi referenced dental
extraction twice as it related to
punishment.
• 166-201 AD - The Etruscans practice
dental prosthetics using gold crowns and
fixed bridgework.
Dental drilling
Middle ages and The
Renaissance: Beginnings of
the dental profession
• 500-1000 - medicine, surgery, and
dentistry, are generally practiced by
monks .
• 1130-1163 - barbers assume the monks’
surgical duties: bloodletting, lancing
abscesses, extracting teeth, etc.
• 1210 - A Guild of Barbers is established in
France.
• 1530 - the first book devoted entirely to
dentistry The Little Medicinal Book for All
Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the
Teeth (Artzney Buchlein)
• 1563 - Batholomew Eusttachius published
the first accurate book on dental
anatomy, 'Libellus de dentibus'
1575 - In France Ambrose Pare, known as
the Father of Surgery, publishes his
Complete Works.
• 1683 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek
identified oral bacteria using a microscope.
Dental Pelican
Dental Key
Modern Forceps
The story of dentistry:
18th Century: From
toothdrawer to dentist
• 1723 - 'Le Chirurgien Dentiste' (The
Surgeon Dentist) by Pierre Fauchard
• 1746 - Claude Mouton describes a gold
crown and post to be retained in the root
canal.