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Pierre Fauchard (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ foʃaʁ]; 2 January 1679 – 21 March 1761) [1] was a French physician, credited as being the "father of modern dentistry". [2] He is widely known for writing the first complete scientific description of dentistry, Le Chirurgien Dentiste ( "The Surgeon Dentist" ), published in 1728. [ 2 ]
The Musée d'Art Dentaire Pierre Fauchard (French pronunciation: [myze daʁ dɑ̃tɛʁ pjɛʁ foʃaʁ]) is a museum of dental history located in the 16th arrondissement at the Académie Nationale de Chirurgie Dentaire, 22 Rue Émile Ménier, Paris, France. It is open Wednesday afternoons by appointment.
The Pierre Fauchard Academy is a volunteer-run, non-profit dental organization that was founded by Dr. Elmer S. Best, a dentist from Minnesota in 1936. The objective is the independence from commercial interests in dental research and its publications. Dr. Best endeavored to raise the professional standards.
Pierre Fauchard (1679 – 1761) [6] is credited as being the "father of modern dentistry". [7] He is widely known for writing the first complete scientific description of dentistry, Le Chirurgien Dentiste ("The Surgeon Dentist"), published in 1728. [7]
This resulted in a cavity on the tooth which Fauchard filled once the tooth stabilized. The filling was removed the next day however, as it caused extreme pain. Fauchard saw the patient eight years later who had lost the donor tooth by then but the Captain insisted that the tooth had lasted him six years before being extracted due to caries ...
Thus he became an itinerant dentist, working outdoors. Fascinated by this field, he decided to go to France to perfect and deepen his knowledge of dentistry. In 1795, Giuseppangelo Fonzi moved to Paris to train where Pierre Fauchard and his successors worked. Around 1795, he set up a dental practice in Paris.
A Mademoiselle de Rezé published a short treatise on a balm to treat toothache, gingival ulcerations, gout and skin eye conditions in 1719 (second edition 1722), a few years before "Le Chirugien Dentiste" by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. [4]. However, the profession of dentistry did not become a regulated medical profession until the 19th-century. [5]
Pierre Fauchard, a French dentist often considered the "father of modern dentistry," contributed significantly to the development of techniques for restoring teeth. [7] Fauchard emphasized the importance of fitting dentures that balanced by taking into account the relationship between the upper and lower jaws. [8]