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39 Cards in this Set
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Juliette Southard
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Started the American Dental Assistant Association
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Baltimore College of Dentistry
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First dental school started in the United States by Hayden and Harris
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Amalgam War
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Battle over the introduction of amalgam (silver filling) introduced by people who had bad reputation and were not taken seriously, not used for 20 years.
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GV Black
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Scientist known as the Grand Old Daddy of dentistry, inventor of much equipment, improved amalgam
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Sir John Tomes
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Studied the histological structures of teeth
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C Edmond Kells
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Hired the first dental assistant, first to use radiation, suicide after he had his hand removed
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Dental Engine
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Invented in 1860, did specific cavity preps
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Cohesive Gold
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1855 by Robert Arthur
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Cast Gold
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Robert Taggart, came up with gold inlays
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Radiography
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Roentgen, accidentally discovered the x-ray
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Anesthesia
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Nitrous Oxide introduced by Wells, Ether used by Morton
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Rubber Dam
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Invented by Sanford Barn, isolated materials from moisture.
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Mayan Skull
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Would decorate teeth with inlays made of jade and torquoise
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File teeth
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Early mexicans would file teeth to a point
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Incas
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Do extractions
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Staple-Attrition
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Navajo women would make a bread from corn, rocks used to grind corn would end up in food and grind away teeth.
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Ticuana Tribe
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Filed teeth for beauty
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Yanomami Tribe
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Place bamboo sticks on thier faces
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Law 200
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Tooth for a tooth
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French Art
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Took ivory teeth and carved the evils of the tooth ache
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First Dental Chair
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Designed by Josiah Flag
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Fixed Bridge
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Hebrews first invented the fixed bridge, made from cadaver and animal teeth
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Hebrew Illustrations
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Compared body to house, mouth was like windows
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St. Apollonia
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Saint of Dentistry
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Siwak
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Arabian toothbrush, chinese designed frist modern toothbrush
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Temple of the tooth
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Temple for Buddha's Tooth
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Black teeth
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Japanese woman would dye their teeth black for fidelity
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Early Dentist
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Monks, Barbers, and physicians
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George Washington's Scar
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Tooth got infected and swollen, hole was made in his face to drain puss
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Chamomile Flowers
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Tea for stomache and bowel problems, paste used for tooth/ear aches
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Cinnamon
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Oil used for joings, brewed for stomach aches, calming
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Cloves
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Oil used for toothaches, stuck in dry-socket
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Corn Silk
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Tea for inflammation, urinary problems
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Dill
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Water used as gas relief, intestinal issues, charm against witchcraft
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Mrrh
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Antiseptic, skin infections, bad breath
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Oregano
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Tea for severe coughs
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Pennyroyal
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Used for toothaches, headaches, lepracy, mosquito repelent, gas
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Rose PEtals
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Cure diarrhea, mouth infections
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Spearmint
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Mexican community, nausea, colds
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