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32 Cards in this Set

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GV Black
Father of Operative Dentistry
Charles Goodyear
developed vucanization
Josiah Bacon
Vulcanite patent agent. Murdered by dentists
Charles Mackintosh
Coal tar naphtha as solvent for vulcanization
Hayden and Harris
First dental school in 1840 in Baltimore, Maryland
Nathan Keep
Harvard Dental School
William Hunter
Publicly criticize American dentistry
Phillip Pfaff
Used plaster of Paris for mold
Charles Mackintosh
Coal tar naphtha as solvent for vulcanization
Very early filling materials
Gold and lead
First plastic/metal filling material
-bismuth, tin, lead, mercury (fusible metal)
M. Taveau
- Parisian dentist who first used amalgam (mercury and silver)
- Problem: expansion and breaking tooth structure
Crawcour Brothers
- brought Royal Mineral Succedaneum.
- Started Amalgam War
Early tooth replacement by Etruscans
Used adjacent teeth as abutment
Dr. Frederick McKay
Discovered Colorado Stain; wanted to investigate further
Enlisted GV Black
Churchill
Discovered that fluoride in water causes enamel mottling
Dr. Trendley Dean
U.S. Public Health Service Dentist who found the 1ppm fluoride didn’t result in mottling of enamel and discovered that a certain level of fluoride in water helped prevent caries
Fonzi
invented the individualization (individually pinned, "terro metallic") of porcelain teeth (many custom shades) which could be used in prosthetic devices (solved the problem of short supply of carved ivory teeth)
De Chament
He worked with Duchateau to make individual porcelain tooth, but had shrinkage problem, and only didnt match the color of natural dentition
Horace Wells
Used nitrous oxide as anesthesia in dental setting.
Crawford Long
Georgia physician who used ether as an anesthetic
Dr. Morton and Jackson
associates of Wells who demonstrated the anesthetic affects of ether and officially created the inhalation era of anesthetics. But
Weber
Arabian chemist who invented ether
3 Earliest types of local anesthesia
-compression anesthesia
-Local application of ether or chloroform to numb the area
- Electro galvanism anesthesia
Dr. William Halstead-
-first to use cocaine medically in America
-demonstrated a nerve “block” on the mandibular nerve
Karl Koller
Vienna medical student who was the first to use cocaine as numbing agent (started use of cocaine through needles in medical setting)
Professor Braun
Discovered Novocaine
Harvey S. Cook
-developed cartridge and needle application of Novocain (in WWI)
William Taggart
developed a method for casting gold inlay and graphite investment coompound
Willoughby Miller
chemist who published a work which stated that surface enamel is dissolved by tooth destroying germs thus gaining access to softer dentin, which resulted in many methods for prevention being developed.
But failed to encompass the cocept of plaque
Pierre Fauchard
-Father of Dentistry
-Published the first useful textbook devoted entirely to dentistry (Le Chirurgien Dentiste); presented state of the art knowledge with thoroughness
Saint Apollonian
-Patron Saint of Dentistry
-Persecuted in Egypt during the 3rd century AD for converting to Christianity by having her teeth brutally extracted