REFERENCE BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF DENTISTRY (I) PIERRE FAUCHARD AND HIS HANDBOOK OF THE TEETH (1728)

Abstract

With this begins a series of articles dedicated to knowledge of reference books, by Romanian and foreign, and of the authors who have made significant contributions to the history of dentistry. This first article is dedicated to the life of Pierre Fauchard, French dental surgeon, who practiced for 50 years in France, particularly in Paris. In adulthood, he published the book Le chirurgien ou le Traité des dents (1728), which lays the scientific foundation of odontology. His pathology, surgery, prosthesis and implantology, prescriptions that have been proven effective and the invented instrumental set and manufactured by him, brought him the value of the posterity, which honoured him by calling him the „father of dentistry”, re-publishing his work, which has circulated in Europe and the U.S.A..

Keywords

• dental instrument set
• dental technique and technology
• French dentistry
• history of odontology
• history of orthodontics
• Le chirurgien
• Pierre Fouchard
• prosthesis
• the history of dentistry in the 18th century