Dental History

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.

• 1776 - first known case of post-mortem

dental forensics, Paul Revere verifies the
death of his friend
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• 1790 - Josiah Flagg, a prominent
American dentist, constructs the first
chair made specifically for dental
patients.
Waterloo Teeth
19th Centruy: Advances in
Science and Education
• 1825 - Samuel Stockton begins
commercial manufacture of porcelain
teeth. ( S.S. White. )
• 1830’s-1890’s The 'Amalgam War'
• 1831 - James Snell designed the first
reclining dental chair.
• 1839 - The American Journal of Dental
Science, the world’s first dental journal,
begins publication.
• 1839 - Charles Goodyear invents the
vulcanization process for hardening
rubber.
• 1843 - First British Dental Journal was
published.
• 1844 - Horace Wells discovered the use of
nirtous oxide as anesthesia, a Connecticut
dentist, discovers that nitrous oxide can
be used as an anesthesia and successfully
uses it to conduct several extractions in his
private practice. He conducts the first
public demonstration of its use as an
anesthetic in 1845 but the demonstration
is generally considered a failure after the
patient cries out during the operatio
• 1846 – Discovered ether as an anesthesia
another dentist (and a student of Wells),
William Morton
• 1859 - American Dental Association was
founded.
• 1880 - British Dental Association
founded.
• 1890 - Willoughby Miller an American
dentist in Germany, notes the microbial
basis of dental decay
• 1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen (1845 - 1923),
discovers the x-ray.
• 1896 - Greene Vardiman Black principles
of cavity preparation.
• 1899 - Edward Hartley Angle classifies
the various forms of malocclusion
20th Century
• 1900 - Federation Dentaire
Internationale (FDI) is founded.
• 1901- Novocaine was introduced as a
local anaesthetic by Alfred Einhorn. In
1905 Einhorn formulates the local
anesthetic procain, later marketed under
the trade name Novocain.
• 1913 - Alfred C. Fones opens the Fones
Clinic For Dental Hygienists in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, the world’s first oral hygiene
school. Father of Dental Hygiene.
• 1930–1943 - Frederick S. McKay, a
Colorado dentist, is convinced that brown
stains (mottling) on his patients’ teeth are
related to their water supply.
• 1937 - Alvin Strock inserts the first
Vitallium dental screw implant.
• 1950’s - The first fluoride toothpastes
are marketed.

• 1957 - John Bordern introduces

the high-speed air-driven
contra-angle handpiece
St Apollonia the Patron Saint of
Dentistry
Philippine Dental History
• Capital Jose Arevalo, popularly known as
Capitan Cheng- Cheng is the First Filipino
Dentist
• 1858 - Monsieur M. Fertri,
Spanish regime
• practice of dentistry was popularly known
as the profession of the sacamuelas or
tooth pullers.
• special course was established in the
University of Santo Tomas for cirujanos
ministrantes which was eventually
changed to cirujano dentistas
American Regime
• Major General Elwell Otis, authorized the
then Provost Marshall General to
determine the fitness of those who were
already practicing dentistry
• 1903, passed the famous Act No. 593
• Sociedad dental de Filipinas was
organized
• Colegio Dental del Liceo de Manila
was the first dental school and later
renamed as the Philippine Dental
College
• University of the Philippines (1915),
National University, Centro Escolar
University (1925) and the Manila College
of Dentistry (1929).
• 1929 Philippine Legislature passed a law
known as Act No. 3538 lengthening the
dental course from three to four years and
in 1930 enacted a reciprocity provision
forbidding foreign dentists from practicing
in the Philippines if they came from
countries which did not grant same
privilege to Filipino dentists.
• 1936, the United States’ dental education
adopted a minimum two-year pre-dental
course as a pre-requirement for the study
of dentistry.
Japanese Regime
• Filipino Dentists became inactive
After the Japanese Regime
• Philippine Dental Association was
established
• 1948, the Philippine College of Dental
Medicine was opened and later renamed
as the College of Dentistry of the
University of the East.
• Visayan Islands three institutions were
founded. These were: Southwestern
Colleges, Iloilo City Colleges and the
University of San Agustin.
• 1948, the Congress of the Philippines
enacted H.B. 2783 and was signed into
Republic Act No. 417 by President Elpidio
Quirino. This law specifically provided for
practical tests in the dental board
examinations; imposed a two-year pre-
dental course as admission requirement
for the study of dentistry set and increased
the penal provision for illegal practice of
dentistry; and effected changes in the
qualifications and tenure of office and
duties of the members of the Board of
Dental Examiners.