{"title":"Contributions of University of Toronto Dentistry Alumni to China's Early Dental Education.","authors":"Helen Yueping He","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>University of Toronto Dentistry alumni have made valuable contributions to the evolution of dentistry and the dental profession not only in Canada but also internationally. The founder and some of the early faculty members of West China College of Stomatology at Sichuan University (formerly the Dental School of West China Union University), known as the birthplace of China's modern dental science education, were alumni from the University of Toronto. With their excellent dental background, skills, and dedication, those pioneers laid a firm foundation for modern dental education in China and their contributions to this effort will be addressed in this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140867848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automotive Technology Revolutionized Restorative Dentistry Discovery of Alpha-diketone/Amine Catalyst: Part II -Reflections on Photopolymerization from Conception to Development of Composite Resin and Activator Light.","authors":"Mohamed A Bassiouny, John A Yearn","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A full account of the preceded early research tribulation that led to the development of the first visible light activated composite resin and the first visible light activator source is documented. The events took place over four years since early 1974 when a raw industrial composite resin that was radiolucent, stiff paste, universal optically opaque white color, polymerized by exposure to a prototype visible light for 120 seconds was given to developed. Four years later, the developed restorative composite resin ended up as a radiopaque, optically translucent, universal color with an additional three shades that possessed the biologic, esthetic, mechanical and physical characteristics with proven efficacy be used for esthetic zone. This conservative account of early development of a technology that must count as one of a small number of inventions during the seventies, over the years has revolutionized restorative dental practice. We were privileged and very lucky to be associated with developmental stages, stumbling blocks, and final success of the first LC Composite resin that ignited the thought process worldwide and laid the foundation for modern esthetic restoratives practiced today.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140862884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Risque Joke on a Remedy Card and Removal of Glued Remnants.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.71","DOIUrl":"10.58929/jhd.2024.072.01.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gian Luca Mascolo, Nicolino Calabrese, Stefano Eramo
{"title":"Buccal Fat Pad: \"Glandula\" of Heister or \"Boule Graisseuse\" of Bichat?","authors":"Gian Luca Mascolo, Nicolino Calabrese, Stefano Eramo","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.138","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two prominent personalities in Medicine, Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) and Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), compete for the attribution of the discovery of the buccal fat pad (BFP). A careful reading of the original texts reported here, seems to identify Bichat as the first to describe the BFP. However, Heister most probably was the first to describe an accessory parotid gland.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical Dentistry: George Derby, An Unknown Artist, and Rube Goldberg.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For more than a century, at least, tooth extraction by ingenious mechanical contraptions has piqued the interest and imagination of illustrators, especially cartoonists. George Derby, an unknown British talent, and Ruben Garrett Lucius \"Rube\" Goldberg all dabbled in oral surgical mechanical humor.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9676758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Changing Scene of Practicing Dentistry: A Survey of the Past 200 Years.","authors":"Vaughn Ayroso, Andrew I Spielman","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If one could be a patient repeatedly, every twenty-five years, starting in 1825, the evolution and comparison of dental care and dental practice would be historically meaningful. Such a <i>time travel,</i> as a perpetual patient through 200 years, is the purpose of this paper. The changes that occurred over 200 years provide a sense of the progress in treating patients and the transformation of a painful and dreaded experience to a highly sophisticated painless profession.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9676759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dear Sis: An 1844 Letter From a Young Connecticut Dentist.","authors":"Ben Z Swanson, Theodore P Croll","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1844, Queen Victoria was 7 years into her 63-year reign of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. John Tyler was 10th president of the United States, to be followed by the 11th president, by James K. Polk in March of 1845. Four years before, Dr. Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A. Harris co-founded The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The school was chartered by an act of the Maryland State Legislature in 1840. Dr. Hayden died on 25 January 1844.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Olva Odlum BDS MSc LDS, the First Female Faculty Member in Manitoba and Dentist to the Indigenous Population.","authors":"Stanley Gelbier","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Olva Odlum qualified as a dentist in England but went on to make a professional life in Canada. She became the first female member of the Manitoba dental faculty and provided care for many dentally-deprived groups, including disabled patients, those with cancer and members of the First Nation tribes.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomas Shields Henderson - Brooklyn Dentist and Irish Nationalist.","authors":"Theodore P Croll, Ben Z Swanson","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An unusual card advertising the dental services of T.S. Henderson revives the story of an Irish dentist who left his homeland and came to Brooklyn, New York to practice. He was a fervent Irish Nationalist and was active in Irish causes. Henderson was an abuser of alcohol and eventually found dead in Albany, New York. The death was considered a suicide, but was it?</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perpendicular Extraction - Visionary Concept with the Prospect of Generating the Perfect Extraction of Teeth, or a Misguided Vision that had to Fail Due to Anatomical Circumstances?","authors":"Wolfgang Busch","doi":"10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58929/jhd.2023.071.02.089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From the second half of the 18th century to the last third of the 19th century, a period of about 100 years, perpendicular (vertical) extraction, became an ideal for many authors, since molars were the most difficult teeth to remove. However, extraction instruments available at that time, caused pronounced damage to the alveolar bone and gingiva. For many authors and clinicians, vertical extraction was the only way to meet this challenge. This approach to tooth removal, while viable, came to an end when anatomically shaped forceps, adapted to the different morphologies of the various teeth were introduced, thereby changing 19th century dentistry with a new standard for tooth removal.</p>","PeriodicalId":73982,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the history of dentistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}