Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — First Dental School. [ARTICLE]

First Dental School.

The year 1840 saw the foundation of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first of all institutional dentists, while three years earlier had been formed in New York the American Society of Dental Surgeons, a national organization, the first work of which was to bring about a legislative enactment prohibiting teeth extraction by barbers and other unqualified persons.