Oops, I got a little behind with writing about Community Health. I was looking on Brooke's blog about the dental museum online, and I read that most women by age 20 had lost half of their teeth back in colonial times! How sad! They also said that blacksmiths would pull painful teeth, and men who brushed their teeth were considered feminine and therefore would get their teeth polished at the barber. I'm sure they followed universal precautions. Wow, how lucky we are to have the things we do now! This is a very interesting website! The address is www.dentalmuseum.org. I recommend going there, it is pretty cool! I thought it was crazy how Dr. Fones, who is the father of dental hygiene, was so highly rejected. I didn't even realize, but it totally makes sense that he would be. I thought our first discussion was very interesting, and I am excited to learn more facts about what is going on. I would like to see that stats on everything. About the museum again, here is another link to a cool part of the website www.dentalmuseum.org/GW/gwmenu.htm. It has some really interesting things about colonial times and denstistry.
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Me and my Hubby!
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Me and my parents
4 comments:
Hey!
Interesting.... about the blacksmiths pulling teeth. I didn't see that on there.
I'm excited to learn more in this class, also. It will be great because we will all be so interested, classtime will just fly by. Kinda sucks that we need to be so interested in something so crappy, though. Stupid new school.
Hey Candice,
Your blog is very interesting. I went to the museum website and looked up some stuff about saliva. Did you know it is 99% water? and we produce about 600ml of it a day. It's a good site, I sent the link to my brother who is in dental school back east too so he can check it out. Ya, I'm excited to learn more about class. It should be interesting.
I hope you are feeling better, it just sucks being sick.
Later,
Erica
Great comments, I think everyone learned something new from your recommendations. I think that having a history of dentistry gives us perspective as we look toward the future of dental hygiene.
WOW! That is sad they lost so many teeth. I would like to learn more about dental history. I don't think we have any classes besides community oral health that would cover it. SEE YA KATHY JO
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