Sunday 27 November 2011

Father of Dental Hygiene

           Dr. Alfred Civilion Fones (1869-1938) 
                       Father Of Dental Hygiene 

         Dr. Alfred Civilion Fones (1869-1938), Dentist and Social Reformer, from Bridgeport, Connecticut made a major creative foot step in the’ Dental Hygiene’ movement. He was born in Bridgeport, in 1869 and graduated from the New York College of Dentistry in 1890. In 1906 he trained his cousin, Irene E. Newman, to clean teeth and perform other preventive treatments for children, making the world’s first Dental Hygienist.  In 1913 Dr. Fones opens the Fones Clinic for Dental Hygienist in Bridgeport. It was the world’s first Dental Hygiene School. Dr. Fones, first to use the term "dental hygienist," today is known as the Father of Dental Hygiene.

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