History Of The Dental Assisting Profess

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Hesi-Re

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Earliest dentist whose name is known.
"Chief of the Toothers and the Physicians.

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Hippocrates

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"Father of Medicine"
Wrote Hippocratic Oath

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Hippocratic Oath

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Solemn obligation to refrain from wrong doing and to treat patients with confidentiality and to do the best of one's ability.

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Aristotle

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Thought that gingiva was responsible for tooth formation and that mean had 32 teeth and women only had 30.

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Diocles of Carystus

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Recommended rubbing the gums and teeth with bare fingers and "finely pulverized mint" to remove food particles. Also, pumice, talc, emery, ground alabaster, coral powder, and iron rust.

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The Chinese

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Developed a silver amalgam paste for fillings.

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The Romans

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Believed that the "toothworm" was responsible for toothaches. Used tooth cleaning powders made from eggshells, bones, and oyster shells mixed with honey.
Gold toothpicks were taken home as gifts.

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Cladius Glen

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Listed the teeth as bones of the body and first author to mention nerves in the teeth.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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First anatomist to describe the differences between molars and premolars.

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Ambroise Pare

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Treated solders with gunshots by washing the wound with boiling oil.
"Father of Modern Surgery"

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Paul Revere

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Studied dentistry as well as silversmith.

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Isaac Greenwood

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First native-born American dentist.

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Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A Harris

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Established the first dental college, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.

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G.V Black

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"Grand old man of dentistry"
Created numerous machines for testing metal alloys and dental instruments.

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

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Discovered radiographs.

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Horace Wells

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Discovered the inhalation anesthesia in 1844.

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Ida Gray

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First black woman in the country to earn a formal DDS degree and first black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago.

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C. Edmund Kells

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Employed the first dental assistant.

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Irene Newman

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First dental hygienist.

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Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association

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Responsible for the evaluation and accreditation of dental education programs in the United States.

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Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry

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Largest and most comprehensive museum of dentistry in the world.

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Lucy B. Hobbs-Taylor

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First woman to graduate from a college of dentistry.

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Emeline Robert Jones

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First woman to practice dentistry in the U.S.

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Malvina Cuenia

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First female dental assistant

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Pierre Fauchard

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Father of Modern Dentistry

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Robert Woffendale

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First dentists to travel throughout the colonies.

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Lucy Beaman Hobbs

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First woman to graduate from dental school