1728: French physician Pierre Fauchard writes
The Surgeon Dentist, the 1st scientific compendium
of dental anatomy, pathology and treatment
Past
A LOOK BACK
AT THE
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1816: Auguste Taveau creates first dental amalgam
by mixing silver coins with mercury
1869: State Dental Association for Texas
was organized
1870: Baked porcelain used for filling large
cavities
1871: American dentist James Beall Morrison
patents the first mechanized, foot-powered drill
1883: The first issue of The Texas Dental
Journal is published
1889: The first dental law regulating the
practice of dentistry was passed by
the Texas Legislature
1896: Dr. Edmund Kells adapts Wilhelm
Roentgen’s new x-ray for dentistry
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