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?