We can help you with a wide variety of resources:
For our complete collection browse the
library catalogue, or contact us on 020 7563 4545 or email library@bda.org for more information.
Ontario Dental Association celebrations
The Ontario Dental Association is 150 years old this year and has set up a historical website to highlight some of its milestones.
The Canadian
Crawford Dental Collection can now be viewed online with images.
British Pathé
Have a look at their collection of
historic dental films.
Forceps through the ages
The French Musée Virtuel de l'Art Dentaire site contains a number of web pages related to
dental instruments.
These include a long and well illustrated section on
dental forceps.
One hundred years of dentistry in Sri Lanka
Anatolian dentistry
Dentistry in the Anatolian civilizations by Professor Dr İlter Uzel is a lavishly illustrated textbook. Written in both Turkish and English it starts from the earliest times with a chapter on paleostomatology right up to the modern day. It includes such gems as the first denture found in Anatolia, the childhood notebook of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and Abdulhamid's gold prosthesis. Email
library@bda.org to borrow this book
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Smile stealers
This is the third and final book in a series from the Wellcome Collection that began with
The sick rose. It covers dentistry from the Bronze Age up to the present day with a dazzling array of illustrations. Reviewed in DHM 2017; 11 (1): 12 Email
library@bda.org to borrow this book
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Saint Apollonia - Croatian iconography
Education through the centuries
For further insights into dental history visit the
BDA Dental Museum.