Resumen de Origins of Dental education and trining in the USA and Uk
This paper is based on a talk given at a dinner hosted by the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. It examines some early efforts towards dental education and training on both sides of the Atlantic.
For British attendees I dealth (and thus deal in this paper) especially with the roles of Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris in developing formal dental training in the United States of America. For Americans, I constrast those developments with how dentistry arose int he United Kingdom. Major figures such as John Tomes were involved, with close links to surgery. The first qualifications in the USA were degrees whereas int he UK they were Royal Collage of Surgeons diplomas, degrees only being awarded from 1906.
