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The removal of teeth containing gold fillings was part of the procedure in the concentration camps during WWII. This paper describes the part played by Nazi doctors and dentists.
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Banking, Personal/history , Concentration Camps/history , National Socialism/history , War Crimes/history , World War II , Germany , History, 20th Century , Holocaust , Humans , SwitzerlandABSTRACT
The earliest records and more recent cases where forensic dentistry has been used to identify bodies in France are described. The establishment of the French Society of Forensic Odontology is detailed.
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Forensic Anthropology/history , Forensic Dentistry/history , France , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , History, Medieval , Humans , Societies, Dental/historyABSTRACT
The development and implementation of mobile dental clinics in World War I is described.
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Dental Clinics/history , Dental Equipment/history , Military Dentistry/history , Mobile Health Units/history , World War I , France , History, 20th Century , HumansABSTRACT
On the 23rd of September 1940 SS Reichsfürher Heinrich Himmler, gave the SS doctors orders to collect the gold teeth from the mouths of those killed in death camps. Here we ask: who were the SS dentists who are directly implicated in that collection, what were the figures behind the process and how did the Nazis conduct this retrieval of gold? Here we give the answers for the first time...
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Dental Restoration, Permanent/history , Dentists/history , Gold/history , National Socialism/history , Banking, Personal/history , Concentration Camps/history , Dental Restoration, Permanent/economics , Germany , Gold/economics , Gold/therapeutic use , History, 20th Century , Switzerland , World War IISubject(s)
Dental Records , Famous Persons , Tooth Diseases/history , Female , France , History, 15th Century , Humans , Male , Paleodontology , PaleopathologyABSTRACT
The identification of a murderer and the eventual conviction was largely due to forensic dentistry and in particular the use of bite marks on the victim compared with casts of the teeth of the accused. The Bundy case has become notorious in American legal circles.
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Bites, Human/history , Homicide/history , Forensic Dentistry/history , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
The discovery of x rays is described and the first dental radiograph.
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Radiography, Dental/history , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Radiology/historyABSTRACT
During the liberation of the camps, a large numbers of prisoners died after being fed too quickly. They died in the thousands, and the Americans and British were, at first, totally confused and overwhelmed by what happened in front of their eyes. They fed the survivors, in excessive amounts, in good faith, without thinking for a moment that dramatic consequences would result from the fact that this could not be tolerated by their weakened bodies. Seeing the consequences, they changed their minds and set up field hospitals whose mission was to heal and feed the patients in progressive stages.
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Dental Health Services/history , Dental Health Services/organization & administration , Europe , History, 20th Century , World War IISubject(s)
Dentists/history , National Socialism , France , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , World War IISubject(s)
Denture, Partial, Fixed , Forensic Anthropology , Forensic Dentistry , Female , Germany , History, 20th Century , Humans , Male , National Socialism/historySubject(s)
Famous Persons , Homicide , Poisoning , Tooth Eruption , France , Gingiva , History, 19th Century , HumansSubject(s)
Military Dentistry/history , World War II , France , Hawaii , History, 20th Century , SicilySubject(s)
Education, Dental/history , Surgery, Oral/education , Surgery, Oral/history , Armenia , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Maxillofacial Injuries/surgery , Military Dentistry/education , Military Dentistry/history , Prosthodontics/education , Prosthodontics/history , Surgery, Plastic/education , Surgery, Plastic/history , United States , World War ISubject(s)
Dentists/history , World War II , Automobiles , France , History, 20th Century , Hobbies , HumansABSTRACT
As Stomatologist and Dental Surgeon Albéric Pont founded with six other Dental Surgeons the School of Dentistry in Lyons which he ran for a long time. When he enlisted in the French Army in 1914 he soon became aware of the extent of facial damage that occurred among the injured soldiers. His subsequent decision was to create and run a Centre for maxillofacial surgery in Lyons. He died in 1960 and left a significant scientific work as well as technical elements of surgery, dental index and devices which still bear his name.
