The mixing and placement of amalgam.
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Dental Amalgam↗
Biomedical subjects
R A Glenner
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Back to the Little Bighorn.
Fillings found in the skull of a 7th Cavalry trooper killed 118 years ago in the Battle of Little Bighorn show sophisticated, well-executed dentistry. Some fillings are examples of early preventive dentistry, using a variety of materials and techniques typical of 19th-century cavity preparation. Dental care most likely was delivered by a private dentist or performed in part at a dental school in the East or Midwest, in a large city or at West Point. The logical, deductive process suggests an identification: Cpl. George Lell. Without additional corroborative documentation, however, this is speculation. Whoever he was, the cavalryman was older and shorter and had better oral care and health than most of the comrades who died with him in 1876. He used tobacco, most likely by chewing it. His remains provide a glimpse into the reality of life and death, dental care and hygiene of the mid-19th century.
Dental Caries↗
Dental offices designed specifically for pediatric dentistry.
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Dental Equipment↗
Gold fillings.
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Dental Restoration, Permanent↗
Dental cements and tooth colored filling materials.
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Dental Cements↗
Collecting dental antiques.
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Dental Equipment↗
Modernization of the dental office.
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Dental Offices↗
Dental machines then and now.
The earliest dentists brought instruments and techniques from Europe as well as tools used by mechanics, watch makers, jewelers and artists. This historical journey through machinery history is a study in contrast to the machines of the present.
Dental Equipment↗
Sterility in dentistry.
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Communicable Disease Control↗
How it evolved. The plugger.
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Dental Instruments↗
On the teaching of dental history.
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Education, Dental↗
Timepieces. Continuum.
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Dental Equipment↗