The Long Climb

Unlike other books on the history of dentistry, The Long Climb: From Barber-Surgeons to Doctors of Dental Surgery outlines the personal struggles endured and victories achieved by the leading personalities of dentistry during its development from antiquity to the present. It showcases the courage and determination of dentistry's pioneers while exposing the episodes of weakness and dishonesty that tarnished the image of the dentist. By highlighting the controversies surrounding major advances in dentistry-gold versus amalgam filling materials, operative versus mechanical dentistry, the relationship between medicine and dentistry, and the restriction of practice imposed by patents-this book gives life to the same old story, making this history book the most robust and entertaining of its kind.

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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