West German jaw clinic
Westdeutsche Kieferklinik is the traditional name of the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine and the Clinic for Oral, Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery at the Düsseldorf University Hospital .
history
founding
The foundation of the West German jaw clinic goes back to the Düsseldorf dentist Christian Bruhn . At the beginning of the First World War, Bruhn made the houses he used near the Düsseldorf court garden available as a private hospital for soldiers with jaw injuries . This facility received such high recognition that in 1914 it was transferred to the Royal Reserve Hospital I Düsseldorf. Under Bruhn's direction, mainly soldiers with injuries to the mouth, jaw and face were treated here. At the end of the war the hospital consisted of 6 departments and 682 beds.
Towards the end of the First World War, Bruhn tried to keep his clinic going. In 1917, at his instigation, the "Westdeutsche Kieferklinik" association was founded, whose task it was to secure the continuation of the military hospital as a health care center and to develop research and teaching in the field of dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine .
From 1918
After the end of the First World War, the "Westdeutsche Kieferklinik" association took over the facilities of the previous hospital and built it up in Sternstrasse into a large specialist clinic called the "Westdeutsche Kieferklinik". Around 1920 12 doctors and dentists were working at this clinic with over 100 beds.
In 1923 the Academy for Practical Medicine was converted into the Medical Academy Düsseldorf. When the West German Kieferklinik became the property of the city of Düsseldorf, it became part of the Medical Academy. After the establishment of a dental outpatient clinic and the creation of 10 jobs, dentistry students could be admitted from 1932.
After Bruhn's retirement in 1934, August Lindemann was newly appointed full professor of dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine and director of the West German jaw clinic.
From 1939
With the beginning of the Second World War, the clinic was converted back into a military hospital. Herbert Hofrath (1889–1952) was in charge of the civil clinic operations .
Bruhn died in 1942 at the age of 74. A year later, the West German jaw clinic at its former location at Sternstrasse 29-39 was destroyed by bombing and had to be relocated to Düsseldorf-Grafenberg.
post war period
After the end of the Second World War, the West German jaw clinic was relocated to the south wing of "Haus Himmelgeist", the building of the former nursing home of the city of Düsseldorf on Himmelgeister Strasse. In this way, the clinic could also be spatially integrated into the Medical Academy.
In 1950 August Lindemann retired. Karl Häupl was appointed as his successor . The aim of the Medical Academy was to strengthen the core dental disciplines of dental surgery, tooth preservation, dental prosthetics and orthodontics and to make them independent in addition to maxillofacial surgery.
When he took office, Häupl, who was 58 years old, focused his clinical and scientific work on orthodontics - and in particular on functional orthodontics - and dental prosthetics.
After Häupl's unexpected death in 1960, Josef Gerke took over the acting management of the clinic. The increasingly extensive spectrum of modern dentistry made it necessary to create independent specialist areas. Two separate professorships were created for the Clinic for Maxillofacial Surgery and the Polyclinic for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, and new heads were appointed for the individual departments. The number of dental treatment rooms has increased significantly in these years. While the West German Kieferklinik was originally orientated towards maxillofacial surgery, the other dental specialties are now also increasingly developing.
In 1965 the state government decided to convert the Medical Academy into a university. The medical faculty thus became the nucleus of the University of Düsseldorf .
In 1966, the West German Kieferklinik was expanded to include a preclinical institute, so that it was now possible to complete the preclinical section of the dentistry course in Düsseldorf. In 1969 Hermann Böttger was appointed to the newly created chair for dental prosthetics. Manfred Strasbourg was entrusted with the management of tooth preservation and periodontology, Walter Weise took over the management of orthodontics. Both were appointed professors in 1972. Carl-Heinz Fischer took over the dental surgery.
With the restructuring of the medical faculty, the West German Kieferklinik was converted into the center for dentistry, oral medicine and maxillofacial medicine in 1985. The traditional name "Westdeutsche Kieferklinik" was also retained. After periodontology became independent in 1985, Armin Herforth was appointed its head.
In 1985, a new building next to the Himmelgeist building was put into operation as an operating wing for the maxillofacial surgery and plastic surgery clinic.
Ulrich Stüttgen was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics in 1990.
In 1996 Wolfgang Raab was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Dental Conservation and Preventive Dentistry. In 2005 Wolfgang Raab was appointed Medical Director of the University Hospital Düsseldorf. For this reason, the Polyclinic for Tooth Conservation and Preventive Dentistry had to be provisionally headed by Stefan Zimmer (until 2009) and then (until 2013) by Thomas Beikler (in accordance with Section 39, Paragraph 4 of the North Rhine-Westphalia University Act).
In 1997, Jürgen Becker succeeded Strasbourg on the chair of dental surgery and admission. In the same year Dieter Drescher succeeded Weises at the chair for orthodontics. When Norbert Kübler took over the chair for maxillofacial and plastic facial surgery in 2002 as Lentrodt's successor, another generation change took place.
In the special tradition of caring for the jaw and facial injuries, a functional area of defect prosthetics with specially equipped space and personnel has been operated as part of the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics for decades. Dental implantology, which has been developing since the 1970s, was incorporated into the treatment concepts and further developed within this structure. In addition, the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics had a research and treatment focus on functional diagnostics and therapy for decades. In 1997, Jürgen Becker procured the first digital volume tomograph for the X-ray department, making the Westdeutsche Kieferklinik one of the first dental facilities in Germany to be equipped with the then newly developing dental 3D X-ray diagnostics. This first-generation DVT device, which has dominated dental and radiological conferences for over a decade, was replaced by four more modern devices in the West German jaw clinic from 2009. Three are operated by the Polyclinic for Dental Surgery and Admissions in the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, and one since 2014 by the Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Center for Operative Medicine II (ZOM II).
In 2015 Ulrich Stüttgen retired. In 2016, Petra Gierthmühlen was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics.
Wolfgang Raab retired in 2019. Michelle Ommerborn was temporarily entrusted with the management of the Polyclinic for Dental Conservation, Periodontology and Endodontology.
Closing decree and renewal
In 2001, a ministerial closure order from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia threatened the existence of the dentistry course at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf for financial reasons. The decree led to a committed reaction from the staff of the jaw clinic, local politics and the Düsseldorf population for the preservation of "their" West German jaw clinic. The fact that the closure of the Düsseldorf course in dentistry was averted and that its preservation is secured in the long term was ultimately confirmed by the approval of a structural renovation and technical refurbishment of the dental polyclinic for 28 million euros.
In 2005, three dental polyclinics (dental surgery, prosthetics and tooth preservation) moved from the south wing to the completely renovated central building of the Himmelgeist building. The maxillofacial surgery ward initially remained in the south wing and the orthodontics in its separate low-rise building next to the Himmelgeist building.
After Armin Herforth's retirement, the Polyclinic for Periodontology was to be integrated as the 'Periodontology Section' into the former Polyclinic for Tooth Conservation and Preventive Dentistry. However, Thomas Beikler (formerly Department of Periodontics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA) was appointed independent head of the "Section for Periodontology of the University Hospital Düsseldorf" in 2009.
In 2013, after being charged with serious infidelity, Wolfgang Raab was dismissed without notice as the medical director of the university hospital and returned to the West German jaw clinic as director of the polyclinic for tooth preservation and preventive dentistry. In 2017 he was sentenced to 10 months probation by the Düsseldorf Regional Court for serious infidelity. The BGH overturned the ruling in 2018 and referred the process back to the Düsseldorf Regional Court for renegotiation. The renegotiation has not yet been scheduled (as of 2019).
In 2014, the inpatient area of dentistry, the Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, was formally reclassified from the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine to the Center for Operative Medicine II (ZOM II) and in 2014 it moved with other operations Clinics the new building of the ZOM II.
In 2015 Frank Schwarz was appointed professor for oral medicine and peri-implant infections.
Habilitation candidates and scientists from the West German Jaw Clinic appointed elsewhere
Many scientists have completed their habilitation at the West German Jaw Clinic and have been appointed professors at other universities.
Hubertus Spiekermann completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf in 1978 on "Endosseous Implants in Dentistry - Clinical Experience and Animal Experiments" and in 1980 took over the chair for dental prosthetics at RWTH Aachen University.
Heiner Weber completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf in 1980 and took over the chair for dental prosthetics at the University of Tübingen.
Peter Rechmann completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf in 1991 on the subject of "The absorption of metals from restorative alloys in the oral mucosa - microanalytical investigations on human tissue samples" and emigrated to the USA in 2001 to take a position in San Francisco as Professor Division of Prosthodontics, Director Clinical Sciences Research Group, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Bernd Kordaß completed his habilitation in 1994 in Düsseldorf on "Coupling magnetic resonance imaging of the temporomandibular joint with computer-aided recordings of the condylar tract - New aspects for function-oriented temporomandibular joint diagnosis and therapy" and in 1996 followed a call to professor for "Dental Propaedeutics / Community Dentistry" at Ernst-Moritz -Arndt University of Greifswald.
Hermann Lang completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf and was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Dental Preservation and Periodontology at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine at the University of Rostock.
Stefan Rüttermann completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf in 2009 on "New approaches to optimizing the material properties of dental plastic filling materials" and in 2016 became director of the Polyclinic for Dental Conservation at the Carolinum of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
In 2017 Thomas Beikler was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Periodontology, Preventive Dentistry and Dental Preservation at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg.
In 2018, Frank Schwarz was appointed director of the Polyclinic for Dental Surgery at the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (Carolinum) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Facility
The current structure of the Center for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine includes:
- Polyclinic for Orthodontics, Director Dieter Drescher (since 1997)
- Polyclinic for Dental Surgery and Admission, Director Jürgen Becker (since 1997)
- Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics, Director Petra Gierthmühlen (since 2016)
- Polyclinic for Dental Conservation, Periodontology and Endodontology, Comm. Director Michelle Ommerborn (since 2019)
The Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Director Norbert Kübler (since 2002), has been part of the Center for Operative Medicine II (ZOM II) for several years.
See also
Web links
- History of the West German jaw clinic: Military hospital for jaw injured soldiers. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- The history of oral and maxillofacial surgery: Düsseldorfer Lazarett for maxillary injuries 1914-1918: the birthplace of maxillofacial surgery. Accessed on September 29, 2017.
literature
- Christian Bruhn: The West German jaw clinic in Düsseldorf and its effectiveness. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1922.
- M. Strasbourg, H. Böttger: The history of the West German jaw clinic. In: German dental calendar 1994. Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna.
- M. Geister: On the history of the West German jaw clinic. State capital Düsseldorf, 2004, ISBN 3-926490-10-1 .
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