Dentistry throughout History

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Dentistry throughout History
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The Beginnings of Dentistry

• According to the American Dental Association
  website, dentistry dates back to 5600 BC.
• The earliest dentist was Hesy-Re, who died in
  2600 BC.

Hesy-Re http//cepheides.over-blog.com/categorie-
10480583.html
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Dental Surgery

• The first recorded dental surgery consisted of
  two perforations under the first molar to drain
  an abscessed tooth. This operation took place in
  Egypt around 2750 BC.
• Today, dental surgery could range anywhere from
  removing wisdom teeth to cutting a persons
  mandible if the person has an under bite.

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Hippocrates and Aristotle

• Hippocrates' role in dentistry was that he
  dedicated 32 paragraphs, in the book
  Peri-Arthron, to teeth. He also wrote about the
  technique for replacing a dislocated mandible.
• Aristotle described the extraction forceps.
  (http//cudental.creighton.edu/htm/history2001.pdf
  )
• Dentists today still use some kind of forceps to
  extract a tooth.

Ancient dental forceps http//www.gutenberg.org/fi
les/26038/26038-h/images/i018.png
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Dentistry in Rome

• 100 BCCelsus, a Roman medical writer, writes
  extensively in his important compendium of
  medicine on oral hygiene, stabilization of loose
  teeth, and treatments for toothache, teething
  pain, and jaw fractures. (www.ada.org)

https//www.countway.harvard.edu/chm/rarebooks/exh
ibits/fifteeners/scans/celsus.jpg
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• Albucasis (1013 AD) was considered the great
  Exponent of
• Dental Surgery in the middle ages
  (cudental.creighton.edu). His book shows some
  pictures of dental instruments, such as scalers
  (used to remove stains and plaque), elevators
  (used for extractions), and forceps.

http//www.malaspina.com/jpg/zahravi.jpg
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Bibliography

• Ancient Origins. http//www.ada.org/public/resou
  rces/history/timeline_ancient.asp
• History of Dentistry 2001. http//cudental.creig
  hton.edu/htm/history2001.pdf
• http//cepheides.over-blog.com/categorie-10480583.
  html
• https//www.countway.harvard.edu/chm/rarebooks/exh
  ibits/fifteeners/scans/celsus.jpg
• http//www.gutenberg.org/files/26038/26038-h/image
  s/i018.png
• http//www.malaspina.com/jpg/zahravi.jpg