10 Facts About Dentistry

Dentistry, known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

Dentistry is thought to have been the first specialization in medicine which have gone on to develop its own accredited degree with its own specializations.

Dentistry is often understood to subsume the now largely defunct medical specialty of stomatology for which reason the two terms are used interchangeably in certain regions.

Dentistry was practised in prehistoric Malta, as evidenced by a skull which had a dental abscess lanced from the root of a tooth dating back to around 2500 BC.

Dentistry asserted that sugar-derived acids like tartaric acid were responsible for dental decay, and suggested that tumors surrounding the teeth and in the gums could appear in the later stages of tooth decay.

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Dentistry suggested that substitutes could be made from carved blocks of ivory or bone.

Dentistry introduced dental braces, although they were initially made of gold, he discovered that the teeth position could be corrected as the teeth would follow the pattern of the wires.

Dentistry began to theorise about the possibility of tooth transplants from one person to another.

Dentistry realised that the chances of a successful tooth transplant would be improved if the donor tooth was as fresh as possible and was matched for size with the recipient.

Dentistry is unique in that it requires dental students to have competence-based clinical skills that can only be acquired through supervised specialized laboratory training and direct patient care.