Faculty Bibliography

The history of dental literature features renowned authors like Bartolomeo Eustachio (1562), Ambroise Paré (1570), and Pierre Fauchard (1728), yet little is known about early female contributors. This study explores a groundbreaking work by Mademoiselle De Rezé, a French author who, in 1719, published Dissertation Apologétique de Remèdes (Humble Treatise on Remedies), the first known text on dental remedies authored by a woman. Mademoiselle De Rezé detailed proprietary dental remedies-Universal Balm, Tincture, and Tooth-Whitening Powder-used to address toothaches, gingival ulcerations, and halitosis. Her formulations reportedly cured the Madame le Dauphine and praised by King Louis XIV gaining popularity over 40 years. While the exact composition of these remedies remains unknown-a common practice at the time-testimonials of their efficacy solidify their historical significance. This study highlights the overlooked contributions of Mademoiselle De Rezé, whose Dissertation Apologétiques de Remèdes merits recognition in the history of dentistry as a vital early text authored by a woman.

Dental trade cards from the late 19th Century are highly prized collector's items, primarily due to chromolithography, a printing technique prevalent at the end of the 19th Century. Beginning with the 1876 World's Fair in Chicago, these trade cards became a hallmark of business advertising. Among the most notable companies producing them was Malena (MA-LE-NA), founded by Dr. Chauncey F. York in 1899. Dr. Ted Croll, a Doylestown, PA pediatric dentist and life-long aficionado of such cards, donated his entire collection of trade cards to NYU, including 120 from the MA-LE-NA company. This paper explores the company's rise and fall, its founder's story, and the historical significance of Malena trade cards.

Throughout history, women were systematically denied access to health education due to entrenched societal beliefs, economic gatekeeping, and fears of shifting gender dynamics. Medicine and dentistry were traditionally seen as male-dominated fields, with women expected to remain in domestic roles, and institutions reinforced their exclusion through religious, cultural, and academic barriers. Resistance to female dental practice and education persisted well into the 19th and 20th centuries, with pioneers like Josephine Serre, Lucy Hobbs Taylor, and Ida Gray and many others facing skepticism and hostility. The present paper makes a major sweep across two thousand years to describe the struggle to achieve gender parity. Significant progress has been made-women now constitute nearly 40% of licensed dentists in the U.S., projected to reach 49.4% in the next 15 years, and across Europe, their representation continues to grow, particularly in Germany and the EU/EEA, where they make up nearly half of the dental workforce.

Dr. Levi Minard's Liniment started out in Canada about 170 years ago, and today, it is still sold by Stella Pharmaceuticals. It has been billed as "The King of Pain" and has been sold across Canada and the United States continually since the late 1800s. The story of Minard's Liniment's development, business history, and use, first as a patent medicine and eventually a long-lasting standard product, is described in this article.

In the late 19th century, Dr. George Augustus Scott (1842-1890), an Anglo-American businessman without formal medical training, capitalized on the public's fascination with electricity by marketing a range of so-called "electric" personal care devices, claiming they could cure ailments such as baldness and toothaches. Although Scott's products, including electric toothbrushes and hairbrushes, were not truly electric, they relied on the era's belief in electricity and magnetism as healing forces. His most intriguing invention, an example described in this paper, "Dr. Scott's Electric Tooth Charmer," was a magnetized teething toy for babies. Dr. Scott's relentless advertising and global reach made him successful, though his devices were eventually exposed as fraudulent. As interest in static magnetism waned, Scott's products fell out of favor.

For over 150 years, trade cards have been cherished as collector's items, with Victorian-era dental trade cards being particularly prized for their historical and artistic significance. Among the most notable collectors of these artifacts is Dr. Ted Croll, a distinguished pediatric dentist who has dedicated a half a century to curating an extensive collection. In 2024, he generously donated his entire assemblage to the NYU College of Dentistry, ensuring its preservation for future scholarship. This paper examined the distinctive nature of Croll's Collection, its systematic organization, and its enduring value in advancing historical research and understanding within the field of the history of dentistry.

A collection of 4,071 Victorian-era dental advertising trade cards, recently donated by Dr. Ted Croll to the New York University College of Dentistry, enhances the History of Dentistry and Medicine Core. These cards reflect late 19th-century cultural and social customs while illustrating how dental services were marketed. This study examines trade cards from the prominent physician and entrepreneur Dr. David Bishop Hand of Scranton, PA, exploring the rise and decline of his company and the historical significance of Dr. Hand's trade cards.

"See Your Dentist Twice a Year" is the standard of care today honored by dentists, requested by patients, and covered by insurance. Where is the scientific evidence to support this dictate? Several systematic reviews could find no support for or against it. When did it start? This paper traces the timeline of the statement and its appearance in toothpaste advertisements. It was first spotted in 1890 as part of a household guide for beauty preservation. Subsequently, the idea became a tagline in dental advertisements for Colgate Ribbon Toothpaste, Dr. Lyon's Dentifrice from 1913, and Pepsodent toothpaste starting in 1926.

This position paper explores the historical transitions and current trends in dental education and practice and attempts to predict the future. Dental education and practice landscape, especially after the COVID-19 epidemic, are at a crossroads. Four fundamental forces are shaping the future: the escalating cost of education, the laicization of dental care, the corporatization of dental care, and technological advances. Dental education will likely include individualized, competency-based, asynchronous, hybrid, face-to-face, and virtual education with different start and end points for students. Dental practice, similarly, will be hybrid, with both face-to-face and virtual opportunities for patient care. Artificial intelligence will drive efficiencies in diagnosis, treatment, and office management.

Pierre Fauchard, considered the father of dentistry, contributed to the development of different fields of dentistry that we know today. However, the contribution of this important individual to the fields of oral medicine and oral and maxillofacial pathology is unknown. This study aimed to identify Pierre Fauchard's contribution to these areas of dentistry. We focused on "Le Chirurgien Dentiste, or Traité des Dents" in both French and English, looking for information about the oral diseases diagnosed and treated by Fauchard. Information on patient history, disease description, treatment applied, and clinical follow-up was collected. A contemporary analysis of the diseases was performed, and the collected data were systematized, reported, and analyzed descriptively, according to the current literature on the addressed topics. Information on conditions such as scurvy, parulides, epulides, oral ulcers, dentoalveolar abscesses, dental alterations, and post-exodontia incidents were elucidated. Findings indicated that Pierre Fauchard described, diagnosed, and treated different soft and hard tissue diseases of great interest to the fields of oral medicine and oral and maxillofacial pathology.