History journals
View a list of history related articles from our eJournals titles.
Rebinding The Dental Surgeon 1917
We are raising money to rebind this important volume of the UK based, "The Dental Surgeon - a weekly review devoted to the interests of the dental practitioner".
Read more about this.
Reinterpretation of a Phoenician dental appliance
Read about an article on the Gaillardot Phoenician gold wire dental bridge in the
28th June 2019 issue of the BDJ.
Advertising - a historical perspective
Read an article on the effect of advertising on perpetuating certain beliefs as truths in the
March 2019 issue of Gerodontology.
BDA WWI memorial
Read a
BDJ article about the men who gave their lives in the First World War who are commemorated on a plaque at the headquarters of the British Dental Association.
Foot pedal engine
The latest edition of the HMES Bulletin contains an article by Margaret Wilson on
The Development of the Foot Pedal Engine.
Dr Coupland and his instruments
Find out more about this inventor of elevators and chisels in the
22 June 2018 issue of the BDJ.
Glasgow dental students in WWI
Glasgow dental school left behind no official Roll of Honour. Florence Dall has researched the records to bring those who served in the First World War to light.
Other articles in the Dental History magazine include:
- Report on the Annual Conference of The Lindsay Society, Glasgow October 2018
- Maurice Roy's protest
- Cary Middlecoff: dentist and American golfer
- 'TEETH': a personal accout of the Wellcome Exhibition, London 2018
- Medieval malpractice: 'An enormous and horrible hurt of the jaw'
- Toothache, tooth decay and tooth extraction in Lancashire 1900-1948
January 2019 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.
View the
online archive.
In the Journal of the History of Dentistry
The latest issue is Winter 2018.
Articles include:
- Precision and accuracy in the management of periapical lesions during the focal infection era
- Dr C C Haskell, dentist and sewing machine merchant
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.
See more about this on our
Document supply page.
