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March 20, 2009
Smile Central Dental. Dental Rescue Unit
From the New York Times, a story about a dentist who provides free care in Patterson, NJ, in a mobile dental office housed in an old fire engine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/nyregion/19towns.html
Posted by cshannon at 12:02 PM | Comments (0)
March 15, 2009
Dental Patent:: 1892 - A Women Inventor
"I, Alice Edith Emily Johnson, of the Terrace Downham Market, Norfolk, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention ... "
In the 1800s and early part of the 20th century the idea of a woman as an inventor was to many incongruous and perhaps even laughable. However, while patents awarded to women were not in the majority, there was a solid presence from "the gentler sex". This is but one example, with others to follow.
Because the patent application process required providing your profession, it is interesting to observe the labels people provided for themselves in this context. Here, Miss Alice identifies her profession as "Spinster," a label we would now try to avoid.
A new or improved toilet set for tooth powder, tooth brushes, and the like:
See more images from this patent here:
Patent-UK-1892-6840: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/patentuk18926840/
Posted by pfa at 04:37 PM | Comments (1)
March 10, 2009
ADA's New Evidence Based Dentistry Site
Of interest to our entire community, the American Dental Association has just released their new website on evidence-based dentistry.
ADA: EBD: http://ebd.ada.org/
The site includes a useful set of resources and tools, including: systematic reviews, clinical synopses of the evidence, recommendations from the ADA, resources and tools, as well as a community space.
The community space is not terribly well developed at this point, being a new service, but I am very excited that it was included and eagerly anticipate richer expansion of this section. I sent this and a few other thoughts and suggestions. I hope that you will also send your thoughts to the ADA to help develop this new and valuable community resource in directions of the greatest value to the profession.
Posted by pfa at 06:46 PM | Comments (0)