TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Oral Health A1 - Nycz, Greg A1 - Kleutsch, Terri A1 - Panny, Aloksagar A1 - Acharya, Amit A1 - Glurich, Ingrid A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - In 1840, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was founded as the world’s first dental school, establishing the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Twenty-six years later, Harvard University Dental School, the first dental school with a University affiliation began to offer the Dentariae Medicinae Doctorae degree, thus establishing the current paradigm of dental education and the practice of dentistry as an autonomous domain, completely detached from the medical education and the practice of medicine.1 Over time, these domains evolved into two distinct industries, artificially detaching oral and systemic health in a manner that does not emulate the biological reality. The separation of dentistry and medicine had important repercussions that continue to affect public health and healthcare delivery both in the United States and globally. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/16 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182672389 ER -