Sanford Christie Barnum
Sanford Christie Barnum (born August 24, 1838 in Oakland Valley , Sullivan County , † December 24, 1885 in Monticello , Sullivan County) was an American dentist and the inventor of the rubber dam .
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In 1858 Barnum began his training as a dentist with his uncle Dr. John Clowes . In 1862 he started his own business in Monticello, but then enrolled at the College of Dentistry in New York, where he graduated in 1868 as a Doctor of Dental Surgery .
On March 15, 1864, he had the first idea that went down in the history of dentistry: He poked a hole in a rubber flap that he pulled over a tooth, and for the first time had an absolutely dry working environment. This invention of the rubber dam and the fact that he disseminated it completely unselfishly earned him the highest honors from the American and European dental profession. A pioneering method for rubber dam isolation, described in 1836, can be traced back to Rich, in which the individual tooth to be treated - similar to today's matrices - was isolated by a gold foil lashed tightly around the tooth equator. The name "coffer dam" was used for this and similar aids and the name was subsequently adopted by Barnum for his invention.
However, he was accused of plagiarism by the New York dentist William T. La Roche. He claimed to have used the technique as early as 1857 and thus to be the real inventor of the rubber dam technology. This was followed by a long, very aggressive argument on the part of La Roche and unpleasant for the ailing Barnum. Newell Sill Jenkins introduced the rubber dam in Germany just two years later, whereupon it was used throughout Europe. Within three years, Barnum's method spread so quickly that as early as 1867 it was known as "widespread".
At the beginning of the 1870s he fell ill with chronic meningitis , which finally made it impossible for him to practice in 1883. Sanford Christie Barnum died on Christmas Eve 1885 at the age of only 47.
literature
- Winkler, Reinhardt: Sanford Christie Barnum - The inventor of the rubber dam, in: Die Quintessenz, 42, 3.1991, pp. 483–6.
- Thomas Rue, Monticello, New York: Home Of The Dental Dam , October 30, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walter Hamann, Corinna Tybussek, The isolation of the field of work, 150 years of rubber dam . Dental notices , 04/2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ↑ Reinhardt Winkler: Sanford Christie Barnum - The inventor of the rubber dam . In: Die Quintessenz, Volume 42, 1991, pp. 483-486.
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| SURNAME | Barnum, Sanford Christie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American dentist and inventor of the rubber dam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oakland Valley , Sullivan County , New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1885 |
| Place of death | Monticello |