26 Facts About Theodor Blum

Theodor Blum was a pioneer in local anesthesia, in the use of x-rays in dental care, and in the management of many pathologic oral conditions.

Theodor Blum started high school in 1894 in Vienna but transferred to a high school in Kromau, Bohemia.

Theodor Blum arrived in New York City in December 1904 to join his three remaining brothers following the death of his parents.

Theodor Blum briefly attended the New York College of Dentistry, dropping out after two weeks.

The low score can be attributed Theodor Blum's impatience with the professor in that subject who was a pioneer in the field.

Theodor Blum continued in the school of medicine in September 1909, and that December married secretly in Newark, New Jersey, Bertha Roth, whom he had met that summer in New York, introduced by his brother Richard.

Theodor Blum graduated from the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in June 1911.

Theodor Blum decided to begin post-graduate study at the University of Vienna in Austria.

Theodor Blum continued post-graduate work in Vienna as a student of J Robinsohn, an advanced dental roentgenologist who was not connected with the university.

At the time, he was Williger's only student, and Theodor Blum worked in his clinic for three months.

Theodor Blum and his pregnant wife returned to New York City where their first child Oscar was born in December 1912.

Theodor Blum began his professional career in his brother Richard's suite of offices.

In 1923 Theodor Blum became the chief of the oral surgery department at United Israel Zion Hospital in Brooklyn where he served until 1925.

From 1929 to 1940 Theodor Blum was Attending Oral Surgeon and Director of the Department of Oral Surgery at the Sydenham Hospital.

Theodor Blum was Director of the Oral Surgery Service at Park East Hospital from 1931 to 1942.

Theodor Blum held various teaching positions in this period primarily at New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Columbia University.

Theodor Blum chose that lecture to be on block anesthesia with Novocain, the first presentation on that subject to an American dental society.

Theodor Blum is recognized as a pioneer in the use of x-rays in dentistry.

Theodor Blum reported his diagnosis as a footnote appended to a study of osteomyelitis that he wrote that was published in the Journal of the American Dental Association in September 1924.

Theodor Blum met with five others in 1932 to incorporate this organization.

Theodor Blum constantly taught two related ideas: that the quality of dental care must continually be raised and that the needs of the entire patient must be the focus of practice.

Theodor Blum was active in the Institute until the end of his life.

Theodor Blum was concerned with the more lasting importance of his scientific work which is reflected in over a hundred published papers.

Theodor Blum served as president of the Metropolitan Medical Society, president of the New York Physicians Association, president of the First District Dental Society, and president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons.

Theodor Blum was survived by his first wife, Bertha, and their three children, Oscar Blum, Mrs Elizabeth Salz, Mrs Ruth Thurm and six grandchildren including actress Tanya Roberts, and his step-daughter, the noted psychotherapist Alice Kahn Ladas, who was a board member of The New York Institute of Clinical Oral Pathology.

Ladas was the daughter of his second wife, Mrs Rosalie Heil Theodor Blum, who died in 1953.