Contents

1. Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

2. The Middle Ages

3. The Renaissance

4. Birth of a Profession

5. Dentistry in Colonial America

6. The Birth of Dental Science

7. Professionalization of Dentistry in America

8. Exemplars of the New Profession

9. Mechanical Dentistry

10. Operative Dentistry

11. Discovery of Inhalation Anesthesia

12. Diseases of the Periodontium

13. Orthodontics

14. Oral Surgery and Oral Radiology

15. Defining the Ethics of Practice

16. Early Dental Research

17. The Gies Report and Beyond