When you visit a modern dental surgery, its hard to imagine the challenges of dental treatment without all the latest technology.
Yet specialists have been taking care of peoples teeth for thousands of years.
Here are some of the key developments over the last 300 years.
1723: French surgeon Pierre Fauchard – credited as being the father of modern dentistry – publishes the first book to describe a comprehensive system for the practice of dentistry.
1760: John Baker, the earliest medically-trained dentist to practice in America, immigrates from England and sets up practice.
1790: John Greenwood adapts his mothers foot treadle spinning wheel to rotate a drill.
1790: Josiah Flagg, a prominent American dentist, constructs the first chair made specifically for dental patients.
1832: James Snell invents the first reclining dental chair.
1841: Alabama enacts the first dental practice act, regulating dentistry in the United States.
1844: Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, discovers that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthesia and successfully uses it to conduct several extractions in his private practice.
1880s: The collapsible metal tube revolutionizes toothpaste manufacturing and marketing.
1890: Willoughby Miller notes the microbial basis of dental decay in a book which started a world-wide movement to promote regular toothbrushing and flossing.
1896: New Orleans dentist C. Edmond Kells takes the first dental x-ray of a living person in the U.S.
1938: The nylon toothbrush, the first made with synthetic bristles, appears on the market.
1945: The water fluoridation era begins when the cities of Newburgh, New York, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, add sodium fluoride to their public water systems.
1950s: The first fluoride toothpastes are marketed.
1960: The first commercial electric toothbrush, developed in Switzerland after World War II, is introduced in the United States. A cordless, rechargeable model follows in 1961.
Fluoridation is the biggest public health blunder of all time. After 71 years of fluoridation, 61 years of fluoridated toothpaste, a glut of fluoridated dental products (and in higher concentrations, a fluoride saturated food supply, our children are fluoride-overdosed and afflicted with dental fluorosis (discolored teeth) but still suffering from tooth decay.
ReplyDeleteFluoridation began with the mistaken belief that fluoride was an essential nutrient to protect teeth from cavities. Modern science shows that fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. Like all drugs fluoride has adverse health effects see http://www.FluorideAction.Net/issues/health
If tooth decay is 100% preventable why is it at epidemic proportions in the US? And why are US toddlers' tooth decay rates higher than countries like the UK where only 10% of water supplies are fluoridated and children's fluoridated toothpaste is sold at half the concentration of that sold in the US?
Tooth decay crises are occurring in all fluoridated cities, states and countries http://www.FluorideNews.Blogspot.com
Debunking the Fluoridationists:
http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2016/07/debunking-fluoridationists-by-karen_2.html