​History journals

View a list of history related articles from our eJournals titles.

Dental implants

The January issue of Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery looks at 100 years of dental implants.

BDA member can access this free once they have registered for the ejournals.

The most important invention in dentistry?

An editorial considering this appeared in the October 2017 edition of JADA. What do you think? Email any ideas to library@bda.org.

History of toothpastes

In the Summer/Fall 2017 edition of the Ontario Dental Association's Your oral health.

Samurai vs commoners

The July 2017 issue of Odontology contains an article looking at teeth blackening and its effect on the dentition in early modern Japan (1603-1867); Sex differences of dental pathology in early modern samurai and commoners at Kokura in Japan

Prehistoric dentistry?

Do these four associated mandibular teeth show evidence of toothpick grooves? A recent article in the Bulletin of the International Association of Paleodontology suggests they do.

Kate Latarche in the latest DHM

Kate Latarche served as the first dentist at the Girton and Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Salonica during the First World War and was one of the first women to obtain the dental diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Other articles include:

• Report of the Lindsay Society Meeting, Portsmouth, October 2017
• Preparing for jobs that don't exist yet
• Use of portraiture in forensic odontology
• A case of misdiagnosis in eighteenth-century England

January 2018 Dental Historian

This is the latest issue of the Lindsay Society's Dental Historian journal.

View a list of its contents on the Lindsay Society web page including access to one article online.

In the Journal of the History of Dentistry

The latest issue is Winter 2017.

Articles include:

• Colombian dental literature during the twentieth century

• Esthetics, cosmetics, prosthetics: is this what dentistry is about?

• The past, present, and future of dentoalveolar surgery in China

• Historical perspectives on the evolution and development of organizations committed to excellence in dental education

 Available journals

   
For more about the history of dentistry see the BDA Dental Museum pages.

If you are a BDA member and  would like to see a list of our books on a particular aspect of dental history please email us and we will prepare one for you.

Alternatively if you would like a list of articles published on a particular aspect of dentistry then as a BDA member you can request a free literature search from us.

BDA members can request specific articles by downloading our photocopy request form.

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