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Holistic dentistry, also called biological dentistry, biologic dentistry, alternative dentistry, unconventional dentistry, or biocompatible dentistry, is the equivalent of complementary and alternative medicine for dentistry. Although the holistic dental community is diverse in its practices and approaches, common threads include strong ...
William Donald Kelley (November 1, 1925 – January 30, 2005) was an American orthodontist who developed "non-specific metabolic therapy," [1] an alternative cancer treatment, now known to be ineffective, which he based on his personal belief that "wrong foods [cause] malignancy to grow, while proper foods [allow] natural body defenses to work."
Hal Alan Huggins (1937 – November 29, 2014) was an American alternative dentistry advocate and campaigner against the use of dental amalgam fillings and other dental therapies that he believed to be unsafe. [1] [2] Huggins began to promote his ideas in the 1970s and played a major role in generating controversy over the use of amalgam. [3]
A book review in the Annals of Dentistry critical of Meinig's book noted Meinig based his ideas entirely on Price's 1923 Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic, and that Meinig's book suffers from a lack of professional editing, makes unsubstantiated claims, confuses basic terms (such as infection and inflammation), and expands into areas ...
Deepak Chopra – Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, author of popular books on health and spirituality. Nicholas Culpeper – English physician, author of the early seventeenth century Culpeper's Herbal.
He studied dentistry for 20 months (as was common at the time) followed by an apprenticeship [3] He taught in the Dental Department at the University of Iowa, beginning at 1890 before moving to Chicago. He researched many important topics to dentistry, including the cause of dental fluorosis [4] and ideal cavity
Bumbling dentist who was fooled into believing that he was a deadly gunfighter. Lincoln Rice DDS – from Broad City. Jerry Robinson – orthodontist who shared the office suite on the Bob Newhart Show; Miss Root – dentist in the book Demon Dentist by David Walliams; Dr. Frank Sangster – in Novocaine.
Dental needle-nose pliers designed by Fauchard in the late 17th century to use in prosthodontics. The first book focused solely on dentistry was the "Artzney Buchlein" in 1530, [48] and the first dental textbook written in English was called "Operator for the Teeth" by Charles Allen in 1685. [23]