Timeline of dentistry
This is a timeline of dentistry, attempting to illustrate the evolution of the medical specialty.
Contents
Big picture
Time period | Development summary |
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Ancient times | Dating back to 7000 B.C., dentistry is one of the oldest medical professions. The earliest records on dentistry date back to the Indus Valley Civilization. At around 5000 BC, descriptions related to dentistry and tooth decay become available. At the time, a Sumerian text describes tooth worms as causing dental decay, an idea that wouldn't prove false until the 1700s.[1] |
Middle age | In the Early Middle Ages in Europe monks act as doctors, surgeons and dentists. However in the early 12th century the Church forbids clergy to do operations of any kind. This gives place to the merge of craftsmen called a barber-surgeons. As well as cutting hair and doing surgery, barber-surgeons pull teeth. People clean their teeth by chewing twigs. Others make toothpaste from things like crushed eggshells. However there are no toothbrushes at the time.[2] |
17th century | In Europe, some barber-surgeons begin to specialize in dentistry. Toothbrushes are introduced into England in the mid-century.[2] |
18th century | Dentistry becomes more scientific[2] and a more defined profession.[1] |
19th century | Diets change as sugar becomes increasingly available. Common consumption of refined foods and sugary treats make tooth problems more common. However, dentistry keeps a fair pace with these developing problems. European dentists start experimenting with dental implants, gold fillings are used to treat decayed teeth, and nitrous oxide is introduced as a way to ease the pain during dental extractions and other oral surgeries.[3] |
20th century | The century is one of great advances in dental technology. In the 1950s, the first fluoride toothpastes are marketed. In the 1960s, lasers are developed. In the 1990s, new advances in esthetic dentistry emerge, including tooth-colored restorative materials, bleaching materials, veeners and implants.[4][5] |
Numerical and visual data
Google Scholar
The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of May 22, 2021.
Year | dentistry | pediatric dentistry | restorative dentistry | implant dentistry | anesthesia dentistry | preventive dentistry |
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1980 | 7,790 | 341 | 509 | 204 | 416 | 791 |
1985 | 10,900 | 507 | 778 | 481 | 661 | 844 |
1990 | 15,300 | 903 | 1,290 | 904 | 812 | 1,190 |
1995 | 19,100 | 1,350 | 1,770 | 1,390 | 916 | 1,380 |
2000 | 30,100 | 2,380 | 2,850 | 2,230 | 1,390 | 2,150 |
2002 | 43,600 | 2,670 | 3,440 | 2,520 | 1,760 | 2,700 |
2004 | 127,000 | 3,880 | 4,300 | 3,510 | 2,320 | 4,750 |
2006 | 210,000 | 5,670 | 5,380 | 5,070 | 3,370 | 6,170 |
2008 | 276,000 | 7,710 | 6,460 | 6,460 | 4,300 | 8,360 |
2010 | 321,000 | 8,790 | 7,640 | 7,760 | 4,910 | 9,700 |
2012 | 345,000 | 10,800 | 10,400 | 11,000 | 6,430 | 13,500 |
2014 | 275,000 | 13,300 | 12,000 | 11,300 | 7,520 | 15,300 |
2016 | 211,000 | 15,300 | 13,500 | 13,800 | 8,210 | 17,100 |
2017 | 161,000 | 16,500 | 14,400 | 15,000 | 8,590 | 17,900 |
2018 | 134,000 | 17,300 | 15,000 | 15,700 | 9,090 | 18,700 |
2019 | 93,500 | 17,900 | 15,700 | 16,800 | 9,510 | 18,600 |
2020 | 74,400 | 21,500 | 18,000 | 19,900 | 12,900 | 18,800 |
Google Trends
The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Dentistry (Branch of medicine) and Dentistry (Search Term), from January 2004 to February 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest in the topic is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[6]
Google Ngram Viewer
The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Dentistry, from 1500 to 2019.[7]>
Wikipedia Views
The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Dentistry, on desktop, mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015 to January 2021.[8]
Full timeline
Year | Event type | Details | Country/region |
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7000 BC | Medical development | Human remains at the Mehgarh Neolithic site in Baluchistan, Pakistan, dating from that time show early evidence of dentistry. Holes in eleven teeth found on the site were intentionally made using ancient flint drill bits. The slight decay on the teeth suggests the patients had their teeth drilled to rid themselves of tooth decay.[9][10] | Pakistan |
5000 BC | Scientific development | A Sumerian text describes “tooth worms” as the cause of dental decay.[2][10] | Iraq |
3000 BC | Egyptian high official Hesy-Ra is one of the earliest dental practitioners remembered by name.[9] | Egypt | |
2900 BC – 2750 BC | Medical development | Egyptian skulls dating from that period contain evidence of small holes in the jaw in the vicinity of a tooth’s roots. Such holes are believed to have been drilled to drain abscesses.[11] | Egypt |
2500 BC | Medical development | Oral surgery is thought to be practiced in Egypt this early.[11][12] | Egypt |
2250 BC | Anesthesiology | A Babylonian clay tablet reveals the remedy for pain of dental cavities. A cement made by mixing henbane seed with gum mastic is used.[13] | |
1700 BC – 1500 BC | Medical development | The Ebers Papyrus in Egypt refers to diseases of the teeth and various toothache remedies.[14][15] | Egypt |
1500 BC | Medical development | Accounts of dental treatment appear in Egyptian scrolls dating from that time.[11][16] | Egypt |
1000 BC | Anesthesiology | Wine is used in India to produce insensibility.[13] | India |
900 BC – 300 BC | Mayans work on teeth strictly for ritual, religious or purely self adornment purposes, instead of for dental maintenance or hygiene. Jade and turquoise stones are implanted in the teeth. Filing teeth into different shapes indicate tribal and religious affiliations. Some speculate that the Mayans were the first to perform tooth transplantation.[17] | Mexico, Guatemala | |
600 BC | Medical development | An early attempt at tooth replacement dates to Phoenicia, where missing teeth are replaced with animal teeth and are bound into place with cord.[11] | Lebanon |
400 BC | Medical development | Greek physician Hippocrates describes diseases of the mouth.[2][15] | Greece |
384–322 BC | Medical development | Aristotle writes about dentistry, describing tooth growth, tooth decay, and gum disease. Like Hippocrates, Aristotle also develops treatment methods, such as using forceps to pull teeth and using wires to attach loose teeth.[9][15] | Greece |
375 BC – 295 BC | Oral hygiene | Greek physician Diocles of Carystus becomes the first to recommend regular oral hygiene by rubbing teeth and gums to improve oral health.[18] | Greece |
300 BC | Medical development | The Greeks develop some techniques for addressing tooth maladies.[9] | Greece |
25 AD – 50 AD | Medical development | Roman encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus discusses dental care and treatments in his writings, mentioning that extractions should be avoided except when necessary to keep the tooth intact.[19][15] | |
166 AD – 201 AD | Medical development | The Etruscans, an ancient civilization located in current Italy, are thought to have been excellent dentists.[2] The Etruscans practice dental prosthetics using gold crowns and fixed bridgework.[14] | Italy |
570 – 950 | Instrumental | The Siwak, a primitive form of toothbrush in Islamic dentistry, is used for cleaning teeth, probably since prehistoric times. A horse shoe shaped metal instrument is used to scrape the tongue as part of oral hygiene care.[17] | |
700 | Medical development | A medical text in China mentions a type of amalgam called "sylver paste".[4] | China |
1000 | Medical development | Doctors in China treat toothaches with arsenic. They are also noted for their development of using silver amalgam for filling teeth. The Chinese are particularly advanced in their observation of the oral cavity.[16] | China |
1210 | Medical development | A Guild of Barbers is established in France. Barbers would eventually evolve into two groups: surgeons who are educated and trained to perform complex surgical operations; and lay barbers, or barber-surgeons, who perform more routine hygienic services including shaving, bleeding and tooth extraction.[14] | France |
1400 | Policy | France prohibits lay barbers from practicing all surgical procedures except bleeding, cupping, leeching, and extracting teeth.[14] | France |
1452 – 1519 | Scientific development | Leonardo Da Vinci identifies tooth morphology,[18] and depicts the maxillary antrum.[17] | Italy |
1498 | Dental hygiene | The toothbrush is invented by the Chinese. The device would take a long time to reach Europe.[2] | China |
1530 | Book | Zene Artzney Buchlein wider allerlei kranckeyten und gebrechen der tzeen (The Little Medicinal Book for All Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the Teeth) becomes the first book devoted entirely to dentistry. Published in Germany, it is written in German instead of Latin. The book addresses barber-surgeons and surgeons, who treat the mouth, rather than university-trained physicians, who ignore all diseases of the teeth. Subsequent to this publication, other surgeons would publish texts incorporating aspects of dental treatment.[9][11][15] | Germany |
1540 | Anesthesiology | German physician Valerius Cordus introduces synthesized sweet vitriol, now more commonly known as ether. | Germany |
1563 | Book | Italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi publishes Libellus de dentibus, the first book on dental anatomy.[4] | Italy |
1564 | Anesthesiology | French surgeon Ambroise Paré obtains local anesthesia by compression of nerves.[13] | France |
1575 | Medical development | Ambroise Paré covers the subject of dentistry in his works, including extraction and treating decay.[9] | France |
1683 | Scientific development | Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek identifies oral bacteria using a microscope.[4] | |
1685 | Book | Charles Allen publishes The Operator for the Teeth", which is considered the first dental textbook in English.[20][21][22][9] | |
1728 | Book | French surgeon Pierre Fauchard publishes Le Chirurgien Dentiste ("The Surgeon Dentist"). His text includes the revelation that sugar causes tooth decay, dispelling the outdated belief that tooth worms and evil spirits are responsible for dental woes.[2][9][1][15] | France |
1746 | Medical development | Claude Mouton from France devises a gold crown with a gold post designed to be retained in the root canal, to prevent broken-down molars from further deteriorating.[23][4] | France |
1756 | Medical development | Philipp Pfaff describes a method for making impressions of the mouth in wax, from which he constructs a model with plaster. Pfaff's use of plaster would allow dentists to make impressions of the patient's edentulous jaws in the mouth.[24] | France |
1770 | Medical development | Porcelain false teeth are invented.[2] | |
1771 | Book | British surgeon John Hunter publishes The Natural History of the Human Teeth.[2] | United Kingdom |
1774 | Medical development | French Farmacist Alexis Duchâteau and dentist Nicholas Dubois De Chemant design a process for producing hard, decay-proof porcelain dentures.[24] | France |
1779 | Anesthesiology | Cornish chemist Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide and notably calls it laughing gas.[13] | United Kingdom |
1780 | Oral hygiene | William Addis manufactures the first modern toothbrush.[4] | |
1789 | Medical development | Parisian dentist Nicolas Dubois de Chémant introduces his mineral teeth paste dentures, commonly known as porcelain teeth.[25][26] | France |
1790 | Instrumental | American dentist John Greenwood constructs the first known dental foot engine by modifying his mother's foot treadle spinning wheel to rotate a drill.[4] | United States |
1790 | Instrumental | American dentist Josiah Flagg constructs the first chair made specifically for dental patients.[2][27][28][29][15] | United States |
1801 | Book | Richard C. Skinner writes his Treatise on the Human Teeth, the first dental book published in the United States.[14][30][31][15] | United States |
1808 | Medical development | Italian dentist Giuseppangelo Fonzi devises a single porcelain tooth imbedded with a platinum pin.[32][33][24] | Italy |
c.1820 | Medical development | Amalgam is first used in Europe.[2][34] | |
1824 | Oral hygiene | Soap is added to toothpaste to increase it’s effectiveness. Later soap would be substituted with sodium lauryl sulfate for a smoother paste.[35] | |
1825 | Dental restoration | Philadelphia dentist Samuel Stockton White begins commercial manufacture of porcelain teeth. His S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company would dominate the dental supply market throughout the 19th century.[14][36][37] | United States |
1832 | Instrumental | James Snell invents the first reclining dental chair.[2][4][15] | |
1839 | Journal | The American Journal of Dental Science is launched. It is the world’s first dental journal.[14][15] | United States |
1839 | Medical development | The vulcanized rubber is discovered. This would be used to hold false teeth.[32] | |
1840 | Organization | The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (today University of Maryland School of Dentistry) opens, becoming the first dental school in the United States.[9] | United States |
1840 | Organization | The American Society of Dental Surgeons is founded as the world’s first national dental organization. It would dissolve in 1856.[9][38] | United States |
1844 | Anesthesiology | American medicine man Gardner Quincy Colton introduces nitrous for wisdom tooth extraction.[13] | United States |
1846 | Anesthesiology | Henry Morton demonstrates the use of ether as an anesthetic in dentistry.[2] | |
1853 | Anesthesiology | The hollow needle and hypodermic syringe are invented.[13] | |
1855 | Medical development | Robert Arthur introduces the cohesive gold foil method for inserting gold into a preparation with minimal pressure.[4] | |
1859 | Organization | The American Dental Association is established as a mercury amalgam promoting dental group.[1][38] | United States |
1860 | Medical development | The British Royal College of Surgeons introduces the Surgeons Licence in Dental Surgery.[2] | United Kingdom |
1864 | Medical development | Sanford C. Barnum develops the rubber dam, a piece of elastic rubber fitted over a tooth by means of weights. The rubber dam is considered the optimal method to isolate a dental operative field and to prevent moisture contamination during the placement of direct restorations and endodontic procedures.[39][4] | |
1864 | Instrumental | George Fellows invents a clockwork dental drill.[2] | |
1867 | Organization | Harvard University Dental School is established as an early university-affiliated dental institution.[1] | United States |
1871 | Instrumental | James B. Morrison patents the first commercially manufactured foot-treadle dental engine. The inexpensive, mechanized tool supplies dental burs with enough speed to cut enamel and dentin smoothly and quickly.[14] | |
1871 | Instrumental | American dentist, George F. Green receives a patent for the first electric dental engine, a self-contained motor and handpiece.[40][14] | United States |
1873 | Oral hygiene | Colgate starts mass production of the first toothpaste. Mass-produced toothbrushes would followed a few years later.[12][1] | United States |
1875 | Instrumental | American dentist George Green invents an electric dental drill.[2][41] | |
1877 | Instrumental | Basil Manly Wilkerson invents a hydraulic chair (now called Wilkerson dental chair).[2] | |
1879 | Organization | A register of dentists is set up in Britain.[2] | United Kingdom |
1880 | Organization | The British Dental Association is founded.[42][43][44] | United Kingdom |
1880 | Oral hygiene | The first electric toothbrush is marketed.[32] | |
1880s | Oral hygiene | The collapsible metal tube revolutionizes toothpaste manufacturing and marketing. Prior to this, dentifrice was available only in liquid or powder form, usually made by individual dentists, and sold in bottles, porcelain pots, or paper boxes. Tube toothpaste, in contrast, is mass-produced in factories, mass-marketed, and sold nation-wide.[14] | United States |
1884 | Anesthesiology | Austrian ophtalmologist Carl Koller from Vienna expounds the value of cocaine for local anesthesia.[13][45] | Austria |
1890 | Medical development | American oral microbiologist Willoughby D. Miller formulates his "chemicoparasitic" theory of caries in Microorganisms of the human mouth.[4] | United States |
1892 | Oral hygiene | The first collapsible tube is marketed.[32] | |
1894 | Anesthesiology | H.J. Carlson discovers that ethyl chloride produces a sound sleep in some dental patients.[13] | |
1895 | Scientific development | German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.[44] | |
1896 | Instrumental | American dentist Charles Edmund Kells introduces X-ray technology in dentistry.[11][1] | United States |
1896 | Dental restoration | American dentist Greene Vardiman Black establishes the principles of cavity preparation.[4] | United States |
1899 | Medical development | American dentist Edward Angle classifies the various forms of malocclusion. Credited with making orthodontics into a dental specialty, Angle also establishes the first school of orthodontics (Angle School of Orthodontia in Saint Louis 1900), the first orthodontic society (American Society of Orthodontia, 1901), and the first dental specialty journal (American Orthodontist, 1907).[14] | United States |
1900 | Organization | FDI World Dental Federation Federation is established in Paris as the Fédération Dentaire Internationale.[4] | France |
1901 | Organization | Edward Angle starts the first school of orthodontics, and creates a simple classification for crooked teeth, a system still in use today.[1] | United States |
1903 | American dentist Charles H. Land introduces his porcelain jacket crown, the first tooth-colored full-coverage restoration. The PJC is made with feldspathic porcelain clay layers successively fired over platinum foil.[44][46][47] | United States | |
1905 | Anesthesiology | German chemist Alfred Einhorn formulates the local anesthetic procain, later marketed under the trade name Novocain.[44] | Germany |
1907 | Instrumental | American dentist William Taggart introduces a precision casting machine that allows dentists to create gold restorations of great accuracy with a minimum of tooth removal.[11][24] [44][47] | United States |
1908 | Book | Greene Vardiman Black publishes his treatise Operative Dentistry, which would remain the essential clinical dental text for fifty years. Black later develops techniques for filling teeth, standardizes operative procedures and instrumentation, develops an improved amalgam, and pioneers the use of visual aids for teaching dentistry.[44][47] | United States |
1913 | Medical development | American dentist Edwin J. Greenfield demonstrates the first modern and truly functional dental implant.[11] | |
1913 | Organization (clinic) | American dentist Alfred Fones opens the Fones Clinic For Dental Hygienists in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the world’s first oral hygiene school.[14][47] | United States |
1914 | Oral hygiene | Fluoride is added to toothpaste to make it more effective in reducing and preventing cavities.[35][48][49][50] | |
1915 | Anesthesiology | Dennis Jackson uses carbon dioxide absorber for general anesthesia.[13] | |
1921 | Policy | New law introduced in Britain stipulates that only registered dentists could practice dentistry.[2] | United Kingdom |
1924 | Organization | The American Dental Assistants Association is founded.[44] | United States |
1930 | Organization | The American Board of Orthodontics is founded as the world’s first dental specialty board.[14] | United States |
1935 | Polymerized acrylic resin is introduced as a denture base material to support artificial teeth.[24] | ||
1937 | Medical development | Alvin Strock develops Vitallium dental screw implant.[4] | |
1938 | Oral hygiene | DuPont introduces nylon bristles to the market.[44][10][47] | |
1945 | The water fluoridation era begins when the cities of Newburgh, New York, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, add sodium fluoride to their public water systems, in order to help fight tooth decay among residents.[44][32] | United States | |
1949 | Swiss chemist Oskar Hagger develops the first system of bonding acrylic resin to dentin.[47][44][4][51] | ||
1950 | Oral hygiene | The first fluoride toothpastes are marketed.[44][18] | |
1953 | Instrumental | The first commercially successful water-driven turbine drill, developed by American dentist Robert Nelson, is introduced.[11] | United States |
1955 | Medical development | American dentist Michael Buonocore describes the acid etch technique, a simple method of increasing the adhesion of acrylic fillings to enamel.[44][4][47] | |
1956 | Oral hygiene | Proctor & Gamble introduces Crest brand toothpaste with fluoride.[32] | United States |
1957 | Instrumental | John Borden introduces the air turbine dental drill (using compressed air).[2][11][47] | |
1958 | Instrumental | A fully reclining dental chair is introduced.[44] | |
1960 | Instrumental | Lasers are developed and approved in dentistry for soft tissue work, such as treatment of periodontal disease.[14] | |
1962 | Medical development | Rafael Bowen develops resin Bis-GMA, which is commonly used in dental sealants.[4][44] | |
1980 | Medical development | Swedish physician Per-Ingvar Brånemark describes techniques for the osseointegration of dental implants.[44] | |
1984 | Oral hygiene | The pump dispenser is introduced.[32] | |
1987 | Oral hygiene | Researchers at NASA develop the first edible toothpaste, so that astronauts don’t have to spit into zero gravity.[35] | United States |
1989 | Cosmetic dentistry | The first commercial home tooth bleaching product is marketed.[44][4] | |
1990 | Cosmetic dentistry | An era of esthetic dentistry is innaugurated by the merge of new tooth-colored restorative materials plus increased usage of bleaching, veneers, and implants.[14] | |
1997 | Instrumental | The United States Food and Drug administration approves the Er:YAG laser, the first for use on dentin, to treat tooth decay.[14] | United States |
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