Albert Gerber

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Albert Gerber (born November 2, 1907 in Bern , † November 30, 1990 in Zurich ) was a Swiss dentist and professor at the universities of Zurich and Bern .

Life

Albert Gerber was born as the youngest son of the businessman Ernst Gerber and his wife Wilhelmine. He attended the free grammar school in Bern. After his one-year military service from 1927 to 1928, he began studying dentistry in 1928 at the Dental Institute of the University of Bern , where he became an assistant after his state examination in 1933. In 1935 he received his doctorate on the subject of "About electrolyte reactions in the stomach and intestinal wall" and completed training trips to Vienna (to Hans Pichler (1877-1949), Bonn (to Gustav Korkhaus 1895-1978)) and Essen. His primary interest was orthodontics . In 1936 he married the elementary school teacher Helene, née Hümy, whose marriage resulted in two sons. In 1939 he became President of the Dental Association of the Canton of Bern. In this function, he took part in the 1939 congress of the Swiss Dental Society (SSO) in Davos , in which the Reich Dental Leader Ernst Stuck also took part. This was there advertising for a National Socialist dentistry in Switzerland . Gerber strictly rejected such a politicized dentistry, whereupon he was declared persona non grata in Germany . In 1939 he was given military service in Switzerland and was promoted to first lieutenant until 1945.

Act

In 1942 Gerber returned to the Dental Institute of the University of Bern , where he was given a lecturer position due to his scientific achievements, which were already recognized at the time, although he had not completed a habilitation thesis . According to the guidelines at the time, this was not mandatory. 1953 followed the professorship for dental prosthetics at the Dental Institute in Zurich, where he succeeded Alfred Gysi (1865–1957) and Walther Wild (1883–1951). After Alfred Gysi was one of the most important representatives of Swiss and international scientific prosthetics in the first half of the 20th century, his scientific career also followed this topic. In 1958 he developed the Gerber condylator named after him, which was followed in 1962 by the condyloform teeth according to his condylar theory and which are especially suitable for lingualized occlusion. In 1971 he published the resilience test, also named after him, to evaluate the remaining joint space. In 1977 Gerber retired, but he continued to work as a journalist. Gerber held a total of 15 patents. After two strokes in 1984 and 1985, he withdrew from all public appearances. Gerber died after a stay in a clinic in his home in Zurich and was buried in the Fraumünster Church.

The following prosthetic techniques are associated with his name .

  • Gerber registration : intraoral support pin registration
  • Resilience test according to Gerber: Testing of temporomandibular joint resilience using tin foils of various thicknesses, which are placed on one side between the rows of teeth, whereby it is checked whether a Shimstock foil is still held on the opposite side .
  • Physiological centric relation according to A. Gerber: Coordinated intercuspation and temporomandibular joint centric (1982, 1977, 1970). Gerber fought against the definition of the "most retruded position" according to McCollum, Stallard, Stuart and Gutowski in Germany until the 1980s .
  • Gerber introduced the method of manufacturing unilateral caustic-stable prostheses in Europe. It consists of the buccally reduced occlusion (today lingualized occlusion according to the spiritual father Payne (USA, 1941) and Hiltebrandt, 1933) and the shortened row of teeth (omitting one or more molars).
  • He pioneered the treatment of occlusion-related facial and TMJ pain (CMD).
  • Gerber cylinder: Anchoring element for anchoring a full denture on a pin cap

Honors

Publications

literature

  • Max Bosshart, Function & Aesthetics, Rehabilitation of the Edentulous According to the Original Gerber Method , Quintessence, Germany, 1st edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-86867-170-4 . Online . Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  • Andreas Helbing, Professor Dr. Albert Gerber (1907–1990): Life's work of an important dental researcher and teacher in the light of international prosthetic and functional analysis research , dissertation at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1995.
  • Candulor, Die Kunst der Totalprothetik , ZWP, No. 7/8 July / August 2009. Retrieved on February 9, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Helbing, Professor Dr. Albert Gerber (1907–1990): Life's work of an important dental researcher and teacher in the light of international prosthetic and functional analysis research , dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , 1994, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Andreas Helbing, Professor Dr. Albert Gerber (1907–1990): Life's work of an important dental researcher and teacher in the light of international prosthetic and functional analysis research , dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , 1994, p. 223.
  3. ^ Albert Gerber 1907-1990 ( Memento from June 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Gerber Condylator Service
  4. ↑ Gerber, A .: TMJ and tooth occlusion. Dtsch Zahnärztl Z 26, 119 (1971).
  5. ↑ Centric Relation- definition, ideal and illusion of a science. Quintessenz der Zahntechnik, No. 9, September 1982; 1-12.
  6. ↑ dental occlusion and the temporomandibular joint. Quintessence Chicago, 1990; 1992 in German at Quintessenz GmbH Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dentist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1990
Place of death Zurich