MEDIEVAL

• During the 13th Century, the Curriculum is based on Roman, Greek and Muslim beliefs
• University of Bologna practiced dissection only if there are legal evidences, thus it is not part of the curriculum
• Theriac is a universal antidote
• Aqua fortis is considered as strong water
• Barbitonsoribus cut hair and shave beard of monks
• Balneators are keepers of bathhouses
• Roger of Salerno and Roland of Parma are strongly against extraction
• The treatment of mandibular fractures and dislocation is called a mandibular reduction
• John of Gadessen authored Rosa Anglica: practica medicae a capite ad pedes
• Theodoro Borgognoni or Theorodoric of Cervia, authored Cyrurgia and treated mercury for syphillis
• Bernard de Gordon stated one of the external factors eating hot foods immediately after cold ones
• Guy de Chauliac is considered as one of the greatest surgeon of the middle ages
• deux duelles as central incisors
• deux quadruples as lateral incisors
• deux canine as canines
• Dentatores are practitioners that deals with teeth
• dental tartar is a sign of bad state of the teeth
• Pietro d' Argelata stated that Aqua Fontis is used as a whitening agent
• Bartolomeo Montagnano mentioned that extraction is the best way to cure odontalgia
• Dentistry is a choking hazard
• Giovanni Plateario believed that air must be pure during extraction
• Giovani de Arcoli or Arculanus described the number of roots
• Maxillary Incisors and Canine have one root
• Mandibular molars have 2 roots
• Maxillary molars have 3 roots
• Canine has the longest root
• When pain resists every now and then, and when the adjacent tooth is in danger, those are the signs that the tooth should go for extraction
• Alessando Benedetti stated that accurate diagnosis must be done before extracting
• Giovanni da Vigo is the physician of Pope Julius II and stated that the pulling of hair upward may prevent the patient from choking
• Leonardo da Vinci differentiated molars from premolars
• Andreas Vesalius stated that men and women have the same number of teeth
• Matteo Realdo Colombo discovered follicles of teeth while dissecting
• Hieronymus Fabricus was the father of embryology
• Bartolommeo Eustachius was the first dental anatomist and described periodontium
• Paracelsus refuted Hippocrates' 4 humors
• gutta-percha is root canal
• Surgeons can't shave nor cut hair and Barbers should refrain from practicing surgery
• Gracey Curette is a hand instrument for scaling
• Ambroise Pare debunked cauterization with burning oil
• Gum separator is when you push the gum away from a tooth prior to its removal