Resumen de Victorian Era Preventive and Children’s Dentistry, By George!

Theodore P. Croll, Ben Z. Swanson

• Dr. George C. Ainsworth and Dr. George F.

  Emerson were two Boston dentists from the late 19th century who were interested in preventive dentistry, “irregularities” in teeth arrangements, and generally, the oral health care of children.

  Leaflets from their practices reveal much about their services and concern for all their patients.

  Dr. George Cook Ainsworth was born on July 13, 1852, in North Amherst, Massachusetts.

  He married Elizabeth Elenora Fisher and they had three children. Subsequently, he married Bell Woodbury Baker Eakins on February 23, 1918, in Manhattan. Dr. Ainsworth died on September 25, 1948, in St Petersburg, Florida, at the age of 96, and was buried in Newton, Massachusetts.

  Dr. Ainsworth was graduated in 1875 from Boston Dental College and practiced in Boston first on West Springfield Street (Beecher’s Directory of Dentistry of the United States -1884 edition), then on Clarendon Street (1893 R.L POLK & CO.’S