Dental Museum (Linz)
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The Linz Museum for the History of Dentistry presents objects on the history of dentistry and dental technology . The museum is located in a showroom in the Old Town Hall in Linz in Upper Austria.
History of the museum
The first museum for dentistry in Upper Austria goes back to the merger of the interest group for the history of dentistry in Upper Austria in 1998 . In 1999 the first exhibition, Dentistry through the ages , was organized. The museum was opened the following year. It was housed in the AKh Linz until 2002 . In 2002 the interest group (IG) organized an exhibition in the Linz City Museum Nordico . In the same year it changed into an association and began with the renovations in the old town hall Linz, where the museum moved in 2003.
The members of the association come from different areas of dentistry, the dental trade, the dental industry and dental technology and work on a voluntary basis.
Exhibits
The museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of old equipment and devices from dentistry and technology.
From finds that can be seen today in archaeological and anthropological museums around the world, it is known that a specialization in dental treatments up to 3000 BC. Can be proven. Whether Egyptians, Phoenicians, Sumerians, Maya or Etruscans, references to “dental specialists” can be found all over the world. Different methods have been developed to relieve patients of pain and to make dentures for them, for cosmetic as well as functional reasons. Around 660 AD, the first attempts were made to use silver amalgam as a filling material; The first full dentures appeared around 1200 AD .
The Museum of Dentistry is intended to give visitors an overview of the development of dentistry from around 1700 to the present day. The oldest exhibits are a tooth wrench and a so-called " Bader chair". The Bader chair got its name from the medieval profession of the Bader, who at that time was the "doctor of the little people". But even then there were specialists; they were called tooth breakers, for the only known way to remove a sore tooth.
Early foot drills , pump chairs , X-ray machines, etc. Ä. give an idea of the ambience in dental practices of the past. Instruments, examples of dentures that are no longer imaginable today, as well as dental crowns and prostheses are displayed in showcases. Also orthodontic appliances of then and now is a dedicated part of the exhibition.
Among the numerous exhibits there is also a picture of St. Apollonia , the patron saint of dentists.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 21 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 12 ″ E