Corydon Palmer

Corydon Spencer Palmer (born January 12, 1820 in Vernon , † February 17, 1917 in New York ) was an American dentist . The Palmer tooth scheme is named after him, a system for the unambiguous designation of teeth in human dentition. He kept the Zsigmondy tooth scheme for the permanent set of teeth, but changed it for the deciduous set in 1870 . He designated the milk teeth with Latin capital letters to reduce the likelihood of confusion.

Life

Palmer began an apprenticeship as a silversmith at the age of 16. During his apprenticeship he sat in on dentists. Soon he was known for his inventiveness in the development of dental instruments. The Ohio College of Dental Surgery awarded him an honorary doctorate in oral and maxillofacial surgery and has accepted him into the faculty. He was involved with the Ohio State Dental Society , the Mississippi Valley Association of Dental Surgeons, and the American Dental Association .

In 1843 he traveled to New York and worked with John Burdell in a dental office. He developed the first complete set of instruments for making gold hammer fillings .

Palmer invented fastening clips for the rubber dam invented by the New York dentist Sanford Christie Barnum in 1864 , which is used to keep the work area in the mouth dry. He tried to make inexpensive fillings out of aluminum foil .

Palmer died at the age of 97 at his son Delos Palmer's home and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery , Warren . The local Corydon Palmer Dental Society has been named in his honor since it was founded on March 10, 1913.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward F. Harris, Department of Anthropology: Tooth-Coding Systems in the Clinical Dental Setting. Archived from the original on June 2010. In: Dental Anthropology . 18, No. 2, 2005, ISSN  1096-9411 , p. 44.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the Corydon Palmer Dental Society at corydonpalmerdentalsociety.org