(Optional) Trace key developments of dentistry from early civilizations to the present, including educational and professional developments in America.
Tracing of key developments should include the contributions of
- Hippocrates
- V. Black
- Juliette Southard
- Edmund Kells
- Pierre Fauchard
- Josiah Flagg
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor
- Robert Tanner Freeman
and the significance of the
- amalgam wars
- beginning of formal dental education
- invention of the first dental chair
- first female graduate of dentistry
- first African American graduate of dentistry
- use of nitrous oxide in dentistry
- use of x-radiation in dentistry.
Process/Skill Questions
- What contributions of Hippocrates are still applied in medicine today?
- Who is known as the grand old man of dentistry?
- Who were two female American pioneers in dentistry, and what were their contributions?