Dentists, also known as dental surgeons, are surgeons who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases. Provide oral health care services with the assistance of a team of dental assistants. The team of dental assistants includes dental assistants, oral hygienists, dental technicians and occasionally dental therapists.
In China and France, the earliest people engaged in dental surgery were hairdressers. They fall into two categories: hairdressers' associations and amateur hairdressers. In the past, the Barbers' Association was used to distinguish qualified dentists with good education from ordinary barbers. The barbers of this association all received complicated surgical training.
As a non-professional barber, the latter is qualified to provide medical services, such as shaving and tooth extraction, as well as basic surgery. However, in 1400, France issued a decree prohibiting lay hairdressers from engaging in various businesses. From 1530 to 1575, independent publications on dentistry were published in Germany and France.
Ambrose Pare is often called the father of surgery. He has published books on proper maintenance and treatment of teeth. Ambrose Pare is a French hairdresser who has provided dental care for many French monarchs.
He is often considered to have raised the status of barber surgeon. We can find some rough-filled teeth and ancient dentures from the skulls of early humans. A wooden board found in an ancient tomb built in 3000 BC in Egypt is painted with "Heisili", that is, doctor, dentist or "dentist".
/kloc-In 0/400, Henry IV of England appointed Flint as "London Tooth Puller" to treat people with dental problems and gave him sixpence as a reward every day. Tooth extraction is a very painful thing. Sometimes, tooth extraction is still a punishment and the executioner's job.
Before the19th century, the reputation of dentists was not good, and dental skills were not improved until dental schools appeared. 1878, the British government passed a law to ensure that dentists must receive orthodox training.
1872, the United States invented the dental drill for modern dentists. The principle of early dental drills was the same as that of sewing machines. The dentist controls the pedal with his foot to turn the dental drill. The latest dental drill is powered by compressed air or water and can rotate 500,000 times per minute.
China originated from a Canadian dentist, A.W.Lindsay, who established the Department of Dentistry in the Department of Medicine of Chengdu West China United University in 19 17.
Two years later, it was expanded to the School of Dentistry, which is the highest institution of modern dental education founded by China. Famous dentists and professors who have trained or worked in this school are:, Xiao, Yue Songling,, Qiu and so on.