PIDEN

• THE BLACK DEATH (BUBONIC PLAGUE)

  Devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague

  that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s
• 1400 Series of royal decrees in France prohibit lay barbers from practicing all surgical procedures except bleeding, cupping, leeching, and extracting teeth
• JOHANNES GUTENBERG Printing press using movable metal type

  and oil based ink. Inexpensive Printing of Books and Papers
• VASCO DA GAMA Trading Empire - Sea Route from Europe to India
• ARTZNEY BUCHLEIN

  The Little Medicinal Book for All Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the Teeth.

  First book devoted entirely to dentistry

  Written for barbers and surgeons
• 1650s Barbers and general doctors extracted teeth to relieve pain and

  prevent further spread of decay in other areas of oral cavity
• Rosemary Charcoal

  Charcoal tooth powder recipe comes from Bankes' Herbal
• PIERRE FAUCHARD French Surgeon

  The Surgeon Dentist’, A Treatise on Teeth

  (Le Chirurgien Dentiste)

  Father of Modern Dentistry
• The Renaissance begins in Florence (Italy), in 1350.
• The first printed book using movable metal was found in Korea. (JIKJI)
• CLAUDE MOUTON Gold crown and post to be retained in the root canal
• Enameling is a process by which powdered glass is fused to a metal

  substrate at high heat which can add color to metals such as copper, silver, and gold.
• JOHN BAKER Immigrates from England and sets up practice in the United States.

  Earliest medically-trained dentist

  practicing in America from 1775-1783.
• Isaac Greenwood First native-born American dentist
• 1776 First known case of post-mortem dental forensics were recorded
• PAUL REVERE Dentist in Boston who made an advertisements offering his service as a dentist.
• NICOLAS DUBOIS DE CHEMANT One of the pioneers of prosthodontics in making durable and esthetic artificial teeth
• Alexis Duchateau (1714-1792) First to think of replacing the smelly dentures made of hippopotamus bone and extracted teeth, with the use of porcelain.
• NICOLAS DUBOIS DE CHEMANT In 1791, He was awarded the patent of the

  porcelain in France.
• John Greenwood Constructs the first known dental foot engine
• JOSIAH FLAGG Constructs the first chair made specifically for dental patients to a wooden Windsor chair
• RICHARD C. SKINNER

  Published the first dental book. “Treatise on the Human Teeth”

  Father of dental literature in America
• 1820 Invention of the collapsible metal tube
• SAMUEL STOCKTON S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company.

  Commercially manufactured porcelain teeth.
• JAMES SNELL Invented the first reclining dental chair.
• CRAWFORD LONG Uses ether as an anesthetic in surgery for the first time in Georgia.
• THE CRAWCOURS (TWO BROTHERS FROM FRANCE)

  Introduce amalgam filling material in the United States.
• American Journal of Dental Science

  World’s first dental journal was published and mass produced.
• CHARLES GOODYEAR Invents the vulcanization process for hardening rubber.
• Vulcanite

  Inexpensive material easily gets molded to the mouth.

  An excellent base for false teeth.
• HORACE HAYDEN AND CHAPIN HARRIS Founded the world’s first dental school.
• AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DENTAL SURGEONS World’s first national dental organization was founded.
• WILLIAM MORTON

  Uses ether as an anesthetic in surgery in Massachusetts and

  receives credit for the discovery (US)

  Conducts the first successful public demonstration of the use of

  ether anesthesia for surgery.
• SANFORD C. BARNUM Develops the rubber dam
• WILHELM ROENTGEN Discovers the x-ray
• Edmond Kells (1896) Takes the first dental x-ray of a living person in the U.S.
• 1900 HORACE HAYDEN AND CHAPIN HARRIS Dentistry as a profession had been established.
• A scientific basis for caries and periodontal disease had been demonstrated by Miller and Black
• WHAT IS "MODERN DENTISTRY"?

  
• 4000 years ago, bamboo pegs were carved in China and used to replace missing teeth.