Dental Surgery: Technology and the Professional Dentist

Technological advances in dentistry Fauchard to digital

Who invented the dental chair? When was anaesthetics first used in dentistry? Find the answer and more in this short timeline

Alessandra Boi

And... rinse!

The awkward invitation for patients to swish and spit is a welcome sign that time in the dentist's chair is up...

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Quite comfortable? Evolution of the dental chair

Commercially manufactured chairs were not available until the 1850s

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