HISTORY OF DENTISTRY

Long ago the teeth were being mentioned in old earthen slates of
old people of Mesopothamia(Babilonia and Asyria).They all thought
that the caries of tooth was caused by warms.In the land where old
Phoenices lived the archeologists found the teeth that have been con-
-nected between them with a gold wire.
Old philosophers and medicals have been written about the teeth,
among them,Hipocrates,Aristoteles and Galenus.From 500 y.A.c. to
1500 y.A.C. the leading dental medicines were those of Bisanthes and
Arabian.Very known Arabian scientists of that time were Tabari,Abd
Al Kasem,Ibn Sina.
As the time passes countries of Europe have also the scientists of their
own.In France was very known A.Pare.
The German J.Stocker found amalgam.
J.Morrison presented the first boring machine propelling with foot-pedals.
Leeuwenhoek found the microscope and he penetrates into the structure of the hard tooth tissues,and partialy into the complexion composition of saliva.

We call today Pierre Fouchard "the father of the Modern Dentistry".
It's well known his masterpiece"Le chirurgien dentiste ou traite des
dents."He is very meritorius for dividing the dentistry from the
common medicine and to make it go on it's own accord,exactly to be independent.
It is the time of Mr. L.Lecluse.It is so called instrument the dentists
use even today to move 3.rd low molar into the position of extraction
or even to extract it.Robert Spooner first took the arsen-paste to devitalize
the tooth.
V.Black made the postulates of preparation of the tooth.
We can consider Mr.W.Kingsley and Mr.E.Angle the fathers of orthodontics.
The America during 19.century helped very much for the development of Dentistry.
The greatest development of Dentistry takes place during the end of first halph and
and especially it developes during the second halph of XX.century.Numerous are new
perceptions especially in the field of very developed special dental electronics and farmacological industry.The approach to dental patient is now so perfect that we
sometimes ask ourselves-can't we do it really better or the best.And where are the
frontiers?We can't even imagine what would happen in the development of the dentistry
during III millenium and what effects would we have from growing computerisation and informatisation.

Any way many elementary theses stay very firmly and they will be surely long
unchangeable like for example
1.The Structure of the Tooth
2.Elementary rules for dental
hygiene

Do you want to read the story of one of the first prosthesis?Her owner was one of the
first American presidennts:George Washington.