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Hermitage Pediatric Dentist On Human Dental History

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Hermitage Pediatric Dentist Dr. David Snodgrass DDS always appreciates an opportunity to inform and educate his young patients about dentistry. The Hermitage Pediatric Dentist’s beloved alligator mascot Chomp is a faithful and enthusiastic companion. Chomp and the Hermitage Pediatric Dentist have worked together for years to bring fun, learning and oral hygiene education to the kids of middle Tennessee. Chomp is a very curious and friendly animal that often visits with the Hermitage Pediatric Dentist, answering questions about the vast and exciting animal kingdom. Today, Chomp’s curiosity about human beings has him posing the questions to the Hermitage Pediatric Dentist.

Hello, Dr. Snodgrass!

Hello, Chomp! I am so glad you could drop by.

Me too. I thought it might be fun to turn the tables today and have you answer some questions for me about human dentistry.

Well, that does sound like a good idea.

I know a lot of things about animals, but when it comes to human dental facts and dental history, there is so much to learn.

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That’s true. Did you know, for example, that dentistry is an ancient craft dating back thousands of years?

Wow. I was not aware of that.

Some of the earliest dentists were the ancient Egyptians, who made fillings out of resin and malachite. They also held loose teeth together with gold wire.

Is that something like the braces you use on crooked teeth today?

Yes, braces serve much the same function.

When was the first toothbrush invented?

That is not so easy to answer and you have to go far back into history. The first toothbrushes were nothing more than twigs, which early humans chewed on to fray the ends. Then they used the frayed wet end of the twig to clean their teeth.

Very inventive!

Yes, and it’s not even an exclusively human trick. Our primate cousins in the wild have also been observed improvising homemade toothpicks out of twigs.

So different animals have more in common than I thought.

That’s the truth, Chomp. All we have do to is look carefully at humans and their fellow animals to see remarkable similarities.

And some impressive differences.

 

Of course. It is our similarities that help us respect each other, and our differences that keep us interesting.

That’s a neat way to look at things, Dr. Snodgrass.

Thanks, Chomp. Well, I’m especially busy today, because I’ve got some new young patients coming for their first dental exam. I must go for now.

Sure thing, Dr. Snodgrass. Thanks for teaching me a little dental history.

You’re welcome, Chomp. It’s always a pleasure. Come back soon!

For more information about Hermitage Pediatric Dentist Snodgrass-King, go to http://snodgrassking.com

The Hermitage pediatric dentists of Snodgrass-King offer an exceptional and different dental experience for children.  Founded by Dr. David Snodgrass and Dr. John T. King, the Hermitage pediatric dentist offices of Snodgrass-King combine “fun” with exceptional oral health care and services.  In addition to their office located in Hermitage, Snodgrass-King offers pediatric dentist services in several other convenient locations around Nashville.

History of medicine

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Latest facts regarding the substantial human being trials that happened during the Frosty War have got shocked both medical professionals and also the public. However testing during this period was in particular intense, at had been not an aberration. Using trail and also error as a means regarding gaining expertise, numerous tribe ethnicities acquired a data source involving medical understanding that was utilized to cure many conditions. The initial identified surgical procedure was performed inside Egypt since far back since 2750 BC. Christopher Freville says how the Edwin Smith Papyrus sheds many lighting on the level of progress associated with Egyptian medication. Although there was usually a combination in the unnatural element with standard Egyptian remedies, these were effectively used in the actual fields of public health, anatomy along with scientific diagnostics.

Track record as well as remedies not really simply employs different vocabularies, yet these people in addition have diverse sets involving rules and also procedures intended for making expertise statements. Also some thing because apparently easily technical since the form involving citation can easily pose large barriers for you to crossing disciplinary edges, Intended for instance, suggestions inside medical journals reflect a great fully several conceptual framework connected with facts production from footnotes within a historical publication. Pertaining to historians, footnotes usually are a space in which usually evidence claims might be examined and contested, whilst a reference inside a health-related article legitimates a claim.

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An applied history associated with medicinal drugs will be an equity casualty regarding this professional separation. Pertaining to, if, as social as well as cultural healthcare historians insist, healthcare circumstances are generally contingent, those who rely on current understandings of sickness components to be able to make clear before disease incarnations are generally ipso facto suspect. Throughout an otherwise laudatory endorsement regarding a book proposal on this history connected with a psychiatric syndrome, the actual late medical historian Roy Porter wrote that “a historical study ought to be able to stand individually of any epidemiological payoff”.

Because regarding the particular hybrid nature involving collaborative histories involving medicinal drugs these issues tend to be exacerbated, restricting the actual possible venues intended for publication regarding scholarship. The editors involving North American as well as British academic medical history journals solicit as well as publish cultural and also social studies regarding medicine, whilst they will routinely reject applied history submissions. Likewise, editors in addition to referees connected with health-related journals are usually unlikely for you to publish applied historical studies. This form that a submission must take and also what are generally considered acceptable data; restrict the particular publication associated with applied health-related history within health-related journals. What historians typically look at as information along with the narrative form in that they will convey it cannot easily be accommodated inside the platform associated with what healthcare journals think about an acceptable contribution.

If a history involving medication uninformed by biomedical know-how will be untenable, then health-related research uninformed by historical context is actually incomplete. The particular challenge remains, as it has been intended for decades, connected with how to help create a collaborative environment to bring these two strands together. Perhaps the actual beginning involving an answer resides within an educational energy that exposes academic historians for you to both patients’ care and health-related science in addition to that gives physicians with the training to be able to appreciate the extent to which in turn treatment along with research take place within historically specific cultures and contexts. Such a hard work could be this foundation for exciting in addition to productive collaborations between physicians and historians.

 

More History Of Medicine Articles

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Friday, September 23rd, 2011

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The original of this image is part of the Stanford University Medical Center Records (MSS 101) at the Stanford Medical History Center. For more information, please contact us.

Date Taken: 2011-01-12 16:02:31
Owner: Stanford Medical History Center

QCM-D Basic Training Course, October 26-27, 2011

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Instrument Training Course content:

Introduction to QCM-D and Q-Sense The theoretical background of QCM-D and Q-Sense instrument operation principles are covered. The Background of QCM, its history and the recent development in the filed will be covered as well as detailed description of the operating principle of QCM-D and its implementation in Q-Sense products.

Application and literature overview An overview of the most common experimental applications and the most relevant literature will be given. Common applications include biosensor, biomaterial, hydrogel, supported lipid bi-layers and polymeric processes. Examples from the 650+ scientific articles will be given

Hands on instrument training Several sessions on varying experimental protocols will be covered.

Data handling and analysis Introduction to Q-Tools 3 and review of modeling software.

Venue:
Biolin Scientific, Inc.
514 Progress Drive, Suite G
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Dr. Manel Balcells, president de la Comissió Executiva de Biocat.

Date Taken: 2010-10-20 08:45:07
Owner: Biocat, BioRegió de Catalunya

History & Sociology of Science, Medicine & Technology

Thursday, September 15th, 2011


Damon Yarnell, Drexel University 'Local Science for Global Competitiveness: Michael Porter and the Rise of "Cluster" Policy'

Location:
Claudia Cohen Hall 337

Venue:
University of Pennsylvania
3451 Walnut Street
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Texana 2010 History of Texas Medicine Display Medium
Come and learn about the history of Texas medicine, from Charlatans to MD’s to the birth of HMO’s

Date Taken: 2010-05-07 15:33:54
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Monday, September 12th, 2011

Texana 2010 History of Texas Medicine Display Medium
Come and learn about the history of Texas medicine, from Charlatans to MD’s to the birth of HMO’s

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