Someone I Admire

Someone I admire in my field is Pierre Fauchard (1678 – March 22, 1761), he was a very important  physician credited as being the "father of modern dentistry". 

He was born in a modest home on Saint-Denis-de-Gastines, France in 1678. When he was an adolescent he began to interest in the medicine area. In Angers he began to practice the medicine on the Hospital of the University of Angers. 

Fauchard performed greats developments of dental instruments often adjusting tools of jewelers, watchmakers, even barbers tools. He invents the toothpaste as a treatment against the caries, also he states that the acids derived from sugar cause caries. He was the pioneer of the dental prosthodontics and he develops a lot of methods to replace a missing tooth. Pierre discovered that the position of a tooth can be corrected. 

He invents a lot of other things related with dentistry, but definitely the best improvement that he did is add the dentistry as a important health area, he begans to use the concept of "Dental Surgeon".

To finish he wrote "Le Chirurgien Dentiste", a book where Fauchard edit all his knowledge about dentistry. Thanks to Pierre Fauchard we can study dentistry as a division of the health area, and we can treat a oral disease, not only extract teeth (as the old ways).