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Describes Levi Spear Parmly's vision for dental education.
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Reports how close Levi Spear Parmly's dental institution in London came to being the first dental school.
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Highlights the high standards early dentists expected of their profession.
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Suggests that the Parmlys were prime movers for educational reform in England and America.
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This paper explores Levi Spear Parmly's vision for the education of dentists in the early nineteenth century and how his work impacted on Anglo-American dental schools.
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The assistance of the Museum and Librarians of the British Dental Association, the Curator of Drawings at the Soane Museum, and the librarians of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Wellcome Library, is gratefully acknowledged.
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Bishop, M. The 'Dental Institution' in London, 1817-21. A prototype dental school: the vision of Levi Spear Parmly. Br Dent J 216, 83–87 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.3
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