James Garretson
James Edmund Garretson MB (UPenn), DDS (Baltimore), (1829-1895) was a professor at the Dental College of Philadelphia, a clinic for oral surgery. With his work A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts, first published in 1869, he helped to establish oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the United States.[1][2] He is known as the father of oral surgery.[3][4]
Publications
- Garretson, James (1869). A system of oral surgery and dentistry: Being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts. J.B. Lippincott Co.
- Garretson, James (writing as John Darby) (1871). Odd Hours of a Physician. J.B. Lippincott Co.
References
- ↑ Cillo JE (November 1996). "The development of hospital dentistry in America--the first one hundred years (1850-1950)". J Hist Dent 44 (3): 105–9. PMID 9468900.
- ↑ Herschfeld J (April 1991). "Dr. James Edmund Garretson--pioneer in dentistry's first specialty--oral surgery". Bull Hist Dent 39 (1): 37–8. PMID 1811828.
- ↑ William Harry Archer, Milton Baron Asbell, William B. Irby (1971). The History of the Development of Anesthesia, Oral Surgery and Hospital Dental Service in the United States of America. p. 407.
- ↑ Walter C. Guralnick (1968). Textbook of Oral Surgery. Little, Brown. p. 7.