Dental Communications /Treatment Coordinating. Chapters 1-5 Flashcards
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The first dental college was established in 1840 by
Hayden and Harris
Paul Revere
He is credited with establishing the science of forensic dentistry.
Lucy B. Hobbs Taylor
the first woman to graduate from a U.S. dental school
The earliest known dentist was from
Egypt (Hesi-re). The first dental practitioner
What contributions did Pierre Fauchard make to advance the science of dentistry?
He dispelled the myths regarding tooth decay.
The focus and maintenance of the work of Dr. Deborah Greenspan is in the topic of
HIV/AIDS and Epstein-Barr virus.
The first school of dentistry to accept African American students was
Harvard
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
He was the first to differentiate between molars and premolars
Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and sketched every part of the human body
Ambroise Paré
the father of modern surgery
Pierre Fauchard
the founder of modern dentistry.
He developed dentistry as a profession independent from medicine
Robert Woofendale
one of the first dentists in the colonies
Isaac Greenwood
the first native-born American dentist.
He studied under Dr. John Baker
John Greenwood
the second son of Isaac Greenwood. Dentist to George Washington.
G.V. Black
Grand Old Man of Dentistry. Black standardized the rules of cavity preparation and fillings.
He developed the principle of “extension for prevention”.
Dr. Wells
a dentist, is credited with the discovery of inhalation anesthesia in 1844.
He realized the potential for pain-free dentistry through the use of nitrous oxide.
Emeline Robert Jones
the first woman dentist in the United States
Ida Gray
the first black woman in the country to earn a formal DDS degree and the first black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago
Robert Tanner Freeman
the first black student in Harvard University in 1867
Dr. George Blue Spruce, Jr.
the first American Indian dentist in the United States
Jessica A. Rickert
the first recognized American Indian female dentist in 1975
C. Edmund Kells
a New Orleans dentist, is credited with using the first dental assistant.
A dental assistant was a “lady in attendance,” making it respectable for women patients to go into a dental office unaccompanied.
Hazel O. Torres and Ann Ehrlich
Coauthored Modern Dental Assisting in 1976
Irene Newman
the first person to be trained as a dental hygienist in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the early 1900s
