Roberto Pistilli, Michele Covelli
The dentistry history is a part of the history of medicine and the study of historical developments in dentistry, including biographies of people who influenced dentistry in their time. This story extends far into the past. In Denmark, evidence of the opening of a molar dates back to the Neolithic period.
The conservative treatment of the teeth among the ancient farmers of Pakistan could be evidenced in the period from 7000 to 5500 BC., and this with the intention of "repairing" the teeth and possibly filling the cavities (holes drilled in the tooth), too. Since the Sumerians, and until modern times, it was believed that a worm in the tooth was responsible for tooth decay. The first work on dental technology was done by the Etruscans and the Phoenicians. The influence of Roman and Greek scholars was decisive in the Middle Ages both in the Christian and in the Arab world. The Arab discoveries reached the Western world, where the profession of dentist
was practiced by barbers, along with other knowledge from Antiquity, the School of Translators of Toledo and Salerno. At the beginning of the 18th century, science lays the foundations of dentistry in modern times.
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