Imagine yourself, walking down a dusty, cobblestone road, with this excruciating toothache, one so bad that it's almost unbearable. You stop at the barber's cart sitting off to the side of the road to see what all can be done to your tooth. The barber, wearing no gloves and having no experience in this field, finishes the person before you. The barber, who has not washed his hands, tells you to open up wide. With bugs and dust flying all around you, you open your mouth and the barber puts an instrument (one that was previously in the other person's mouth) into your mouth and tells you that he is going to have to pull the tooth. The barber, along with 4-10 strong men who are holding you down, pulls the tooth right out without having any sort of anesthetic. Along with the tooth is a piece of your jawbone. You scream! All you could think of was the pain. As days go by, you now have a horrible infection. Puss is seeping from where the tooth was and is pouring down the back of your th

3. Don't bite into things that are too hard.

Dentators were a specific group of practitioners caring for the oral cavity and the teeth. They were the first specialists in treating teeth. Dentators performed surgery, tooth extractions, and bloodletting. Ambroise Pare (1517-1590), "the father of modern surgery and the greatest surgeon of the Renaissance," began as a barber surgeon.

Simon P. Hullihen (1810-1857), honored as a pioneer in the field, is known as "the father of oral surgery", but in his lifetime he struggled against prejudice, scorn, and skepticism. He was among the first of the doctors to specialize-and his specialty was the treatment by surgery of defects of the mouth and head. He performed over 500 operations for cleft lip, cleft palate, and other abnormalities and diseases of the mouth and jaw. Hullihen carried out the first surgical procedure on the mandible for deformity in 1848 on a 20 years old girl with gross facial deformity resulting from burns. He frequently invented his own instruments, six of which still remain in use today. In addition he was a successful author and lecturer. He was also a humanitarian. Hullihen died from pneumonia on the 25th of March in 1857.

It is important to know the historic struggles and contributions to oral surgery that advanced the profession into what it is today. Thanks to these famous people, and their contributions, people today don't fear surgery as they did in the past. Technology is more advanced.

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