The NMD Dental History Fact Search

  1. The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry was recognized as the official national museum of dentistry by an act of Congress in ______
  2. Who performed her “Butterfly” routine while hanging by her teeth? ______
  3. What academy award winning actress is pictured in “Ready, Set, Smile?” ______
  4. Name a region where the filing of the teeth is still prevalent. ______
  5. The patron saint of dentistry is ______
  6. Movies have featured scenes in dental offices. Name, at least one, famous actor starring in a silent movie with a dental scene. ______
  7. The skull with the longest tusks in the animal hall is a ______
  8. What physician established the importance of educating patients in personal hygiene and described the ideal characteristics of dental floss and toothbrushes? ______
  9. The optimal fluoride content established for municipal water systems is ______part/s per million.
  10. Who is considered, by some, to be the “Father of the Oral Hygiene Movement?” ______
  11. Dr. Fones opened the Fones School of Dental Hygiene in his ______in 1913.
  12. The electric toothbrush was developed prior to ______
  13. What toothpaste brand initiated the “Look Mom – No cavities” campaign? ______
  14. Dr. Levi Spear Parmly advocated using floss as early as ______
  15. List 3 things chewing tobacco can cause. ______, ______, ______
  16. Inlays placed in maxillary anterior teeth for decorative purposes were done by what civilization? ______
  17. In the late 1600s ______reported the discovery of “animacules” in material scraped from his teeth.
  18. The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (BCDS), the first dental college in the world, was opened in ______
  19. ______introduced nitrous oxide to dentistry.
  20. Victorian era dentists obtained many of the teeth they used to make dentures from ______
  21. A dentist from Vineland, NJ invented ______
  22. George Washington’s dentures owned by BCDS and now the National Museum of Dentistry have teeth made of ______(The base of this mandibular denture was also made of this material.)
  23. Teeth can survive fires reaching ______°C.
  24. The comparison of antemortem radiographs of an African male with the postmortem radiographs of victim No. NMDA-010 results in a/an ______
  25. The average person produces approximately ______ml of saliva daily.