Since when has dental disease been treated? - ANSWERSprehistoric times
According to primitive historic records, what are some ways people treated oral pain? -
ANSWERSIncantations, chemical and vegetable plasters, and various rinses to treat oral pain.
What were early substitutes
for natural teeth made of? - ANSWERSFirst, of bones and teeth of animals; and then from mother-of-
pearl, ivory and jeweler's enamel baked on carved bone or metal tooth
plates.
When did medical doctors start studying the mouth more seriously? - ANSWERSmid-eighteenth century
Who is considered to be the Father of Modern Dentistry? - ANSWERSPierre
Fauchard
When was the first textbook (Le Chirurgien Dentiste) about dentistry published? - ANSWERS1728
When did dentistry first arrive in America? (HINT: George
Washington was among the most famous of early dental patients
for whom prosthetic teeth were made.) - ANSWERS~1766
Who was the dentist to take cases from other dentists and, hence, establish the first commercial dental
lab in America? - ANSWERSDr. Stowe began taking cases from others in 1883; in 1887, he opened a
dental laboratory.
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