Title: (Optional) Trace key developments of dentistry from early civilizations to the present, including educational and professional developments in the United States.
Course: Dental Careers I (14054-I) > Section: Introducing Dentistry and the Dental Team

Tracing of key developments should include the contributions of individuals such as

- V. Black
- Pierre Fauchard
- Josiah Flagg
- Robert Tanner Freeman
- Hippocrates
- Edmund Kells
- Irene Newman
- Juliette Southard
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor

and the significance of the

- Amalgam Wars
- beginning of formal oral health professional education
- invention of the first dental chair
- first female graduate of dentistry
- first African American graduate of dentistry
- first Hispanic American graduate of dentistry
- use of nitrous oxide in dentistry
- use of radiation in dentistry
- emergence of digital dentistry.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What contributions of Hippocrates are still applied in medicine today?
- Who is known as the grand old man of dentistry?
- Who were two female American pioneers in dentistry, and what were their contributions?