Two hundred years of dental education in the Russian Empire

Abstract

From the beginning of the 18th century. In the Russian Empire, dentistry emerged from surgery as an independent field of medicine. The institutionalization of dental education is associated with the solution of pressing issues of dentistry on a scientific basis, the growing popularity of the professions of dentist and dentist, the creation of departments for the study of dental art and dental schools. Since the second half of the 19th century, structures for postgraduate education of dentists and maxillofacial surgeons have been emerging, in the creation and functioning of which outstanding representatives of domestic medicine played an important role. Due to reasonable management influences from government agencies and private structures, the dental education system during the First World War demonstrated its effectiveness, and specialists trained within its framework passed the exam for professional and civil maturity, providing regular care to the sick and wounded. In general, the two-hundred-year history of dental education in Russia has brought due results in terms of professional training and retraining, often forced, of dentists and oral surgeons, and the names included in it have gained worldwide fame.