Dr. John M. Harris started the world's first dental school in
Bainbridge, Ohio, and influenced establishing dentistry as a health profession.
It opened on 21 stFebruary 1828, and today is a dental museum. The first dental
college, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, opened in Baltimore, Maryland,
USA in 1840.Chapin Harris and Horace Hayden founded the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery, the first school dedicated solely to dentistry. The college
merged with the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in 1923, which still
exists today.
A recent researches reveals that the earliest use of
toothbrushes may have occurred in India and Africa. It was discovered that a
bristle toothbrush had been used there as early as 1600 BC. The first bristle
toothbrush found was in China during the Tang Dynasty (619–907) and used hog
bristle. In 1223, Japanese Zen master DōgenKigen recorded on Shōbōgenzō that he
saw monks in China clean their teeth with brushes made of horse-tail hairs
attached to an ox-bone handle. The bristle toothbrush spread to Europe, brought
back from China to Europe by travellers. It was adopted in Europe during the
17th century. Many mass-produced toothbrushes, made with horse or boar bristle,
were imported to England from China until the mid-20th century.The first patent
for a toothbrush was by H. N. Wadsworth in 1857 in the United States, but mass
production in the United States only started in 1885. During the 1900s,
celluloid handles gradually replaced bone handles in toothbrushes. Natural
animal bristles were also replaced by synthetic fibers, usually nylon, by
DuPont in 1938. The first nylon bristle toothbrush, made with nylon yarn, went
on sale on February 24, 1938. The first electric toothbrush, the Broxodent, was
invented in Switzerland in 1954.
The first publication on dentistry
The first book focused solely on dentistry was the
"ArtzneyBuchlein" in 1530 and the first dental textbook written in
English was called "Operator for the Teeth" by Charles Allen in 1685.
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