This series of seven articles demonstrates how some aspects of dentistry have progressed since 1880 when the Monthly Review of Dental Surgery became the Journal of the British Dental Association, to renaming as the British Dental Journal in 1903, right up to 2005.

During those years the profession, manufacturers and other traders played important roles in the development of dentistry. Early improvements came as the profession developed, with the need for education, training, qualifications and dental periodicals. Many associated developments in techniques, equipment, materials and the ways in which services were delivered were made possible because of the Industrial Revolution. It gave rise to an unprecedented increase in productivity, intellectual activity and incomes. Because of limited space only selected topics are included. Here we see how dental literature developed and grew.

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