Nicolas Dubois de Chémant
Nicolas Dubois de Chémant (* 1753 ; † 1824 ) was a French dentist who claimed to have made the first artificial porcelain teeth.
Life
Dubois de Chemant perfected one from porcelain existing prosthesis in collaboration with the Parisian pharmacist Alexis Duchâteau (1714-1792), who with his he developed volatile and malodorous dentures from ivory was dissatisfied. He met with Dubois de Chémant for advice. Duchateau had already made such a prosthesis in 1774, but it was unsuccessful in marketing and eventually abandoned the project. Dubois de Chémant stayed with it and, after further perfecting the manufacturing process, applied for a patent under his own name in 1787 . Duchateau then sued Dubois de Chémant, but without success. Dubois de Chémant published the porcelain prosthesis as his invention in his dissertation sue les avantages de nouvelles dents et rateliers artificiels incorruptibles et sans odeur ("Advantages of durable and odorless new teeth and artificial dentures"). The dissertation was published in the 1790s. In 1791 Dubois de Chémant received a patent for his “mineral paste” teeth in England, where he had fled from the French Revolution . In the early 19th century, the Wedgewood company produced porcelain pastes for Dubois de Chémant for the manufacture of artificial teeth . Dubois de Chémant used it to produce dentures - from single crowns to full dentures . In addition, he made obturators , chin and nose epitheses out of porcelain.
Individual evidence
- ↑ B. Kurdyk: [Nicholas Dubois de Chemant and the use of porcelain in dentistry] . In: Le Chirurgien-Dentiste De France . tape 61 , no. 577 , September 19, 1991, ISSN 0009-4838 , pp. 49-50, 53-54 , PMID 1935365 .
- ↑ The Henry J. McKellops Collection in Dental Medicine
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| SURNAME | Dubois de Chémant, Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French dentist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1753 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1824 |