The long climb
Subtitle: from barber-surgeons to doctors of dental surgery
By: Philias R. Garant, DMD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hanover Park, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780867156492
Subjects: History of Dentistry; Dentistry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antiquity to the early Middle Ages; title: The Middle Ages; title: The Renaissance; title: Birth of a profession; title: Dentistry in colonial America; title: The birth of dental science; title: Professionalization of dentistry in America; title: Exemplars of the new profession; title: Mechanical dentistry; title: Operative dentistry; title: Discovery of inhalation anesthesia; title: Diseases of the periodontium; title: Orthodontics; title: Oral surgery and oral radiology; title: Defining the ethics of practice; title: Early dental research; title: The Gies Report and beyond.