The long climb : from barber-surgeons to doctors of dental surgery

Summary: "Unlike other books on the history of dentistry, The Long Climb: From Barber-Surgeons to Doctors of Dental Surgery outlines the personal struggles endured and victories achieved by the leading personalities of dentistry during its development from antiquity to the present. It showcases the courage and determination of dentistry's pioneers while exposing the episodes of weakness and dishonesty that tarnished the image of the dentist. By highlighting the controversies surrounding major advances in dentistry--gold versus amalgam fillings materials, operative versus mechanical dentistry, the relationship between medicine and dentistry, and the restriction of practice imposed by patents--this book gives life to the same old story, making this history book the most robust and entertaining of its kind."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780867156645
ISBN: 0867156643
ISBN: 9780867156492
ISBN: 086715649X
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (vii, 488 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Hanover Park, IL : Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Antiquity to the early Middle Ages -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- Birth of a profession -- Dentistry in colonial America -- The birth of dental science -- Professionalization of dentistry in America -- Exemplars of the new profession -- Mechanical dentistry -- Operative dentistry -- The discovery of inhalation anesthesia -- Diseases of the periodontium -- Orthodontics -- Oral surgery and oral radiology -- Defining the ethics of practice -- Early dental research -- The Gies Report and beyond.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.