Dentistry story in pictures

Dentistry story in pictures

Like any story, and dentistry begins with "Once upon a time" ... in the year 7000 BC, a group of craftsmen in Indus Valley whose occupation was to make strands of beads.

And have found a new use for Vril rope that used in their job, so in general who make most distant ancestors of what we call today "dentists."
Vril was used to cure dental problems in the course incredibly painful procedures, which led to the nurse ancestor of the dentist, because I needed at least one more person to prevent patient to struggle during the "treatment . "


However, the question that it put all the people who had to endure terrible pain to keep teeth teeth was what made her sick.
 
 Response did not find craftsmen Indians and Pakistanis in the year 7000 BC, but the Sumerians, two thousand years later. Then the worm first appeared myth dental caries explaining. The logic behind this explanation is that the tooth had a cavity holes that look like they were made of wood worms.

Myth tooth worm was taken over by philosophers and poets of ancient Greece, being found also in the writings of cultures Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian and Indian. And lasted a long time, razbatand throughout history until the 1300s, when French surgeon Guy de Chauliac himself promoted this myth as the cause of cavities.
  But back again in time, not until the year 5000 BC, but in 700 BC, when the Etruscans first used bridges in their primitive version. But there were also the only ones.
Egyptians boast that they invented cosmetic dentistry, when gold wires are used to connect the teeth and create a bridge.
Dentistry story in pictures
They were worn by women, so prove their social status.
As expected, in times long forgotten things moved slowly, but little progress was extremely important and distances recorded at the time.
So until the sixteenth century, the dentist profession itself did not exist, which today powers incumbent dentists preserve the time being until barbers and general practitioners.
And all before, most common procedure performed was much-told dentistry tooth extraction, which was used to relieve pain and stop the degradation teeth. But even so, progress was only just in terms of the tools used. Thus, during the 4th century, Dental Pelican, an instrument invented by the aforementioned surgeon Guy de Chauliac, has undergone many changes to dental leaving room key, which in turn has been perfected over the years.

Eleven years later, George F. Green invented the first electric dental engine.

In 1840 Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris founded the first school dedicated exclusively to dentistry, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, almost a century later, in 1923 - was built in the School of Dental Medicine, University of Maryland, where there are today.

At the beginning of the story in pictures, pictures spoke for themselves and primitive instruments depicted it certainly helped you to imagine the torment by passing those who needed their help to treat dental problems.
Dentistry story in pictures
Well, the pain is unbearable stopped with 1844, when a dentist named Horace Wells of Connecticut found that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthetic. However, he did not remain in history as the man who made the discovery, because its public demonstration of the effects of nitrous oxide anesthesia was a failure, the patient screaming in pain during surgery that the dentist made.

He is credited as one of his students, William Morton, whose public demonstration was one successful.
I came so close to today's story in the twentieth century, full of major improvements and innovations regarding dentistry.

At the dawn of this century, in 1903, Charles Land has built a porcelain crown and two years later, the German chemist Alfred Einhord found Novocain.


After 3 decades, in 1938, appeared on the market first toothbrush with synthetic nylon brushes, as the core of a century, begin to be marketed the first fluoride toothpaste.

In 1957, John Borden invented a high-speed electric drill.

In the 60 dental lasers appear first electric toothbrushes, and in the 90's take off cosmetic dentistry and all it entails: dental implants, teeth whitening treatments, applying dental dental jewelry and tattoos.

 As you can see in this historic magnificent dental experienced a breakthrough in the last 100 years.
Where do you think will get dentistry over the next 50 years?