Pierre Fauchard

Pierre Fauchard (* January 2, 1678 in Saint- Denis -de- Gastines in Brittany, † March 21, 1761 in Paris ) was a French dentist.

Life

He was the son of a weaver Gilles Fauchard et Mathurine Germain († 1710) and his mother's Mathurine Germain († 1681). In 1693 he joined the Royal French Navy at the age of 15 years. There coined him Alexandre Poteleret, a medical officer, Major surgeries of Vaisseaux du Roi who in turn had spent much time with the study of diseases of the teeth and mouth. In 1699 he married the widow of the surgeon Jan David Marie Anne Le Febvre ( born May 9, 1662 - † March 20, 1729 ) at the Notre -Dame de Paris Cathedral, they had a daughter. After the death of his first wife he married in 1729 Elisabeth Guillemette Chemin ( 1712-1739 ) in the church of Saint- Sulpice in Paris.

His two-volume textbook " Le chirurgien dentiste " from 1728 is the first scientifically complete processing of dentistry at all. 1733 the book was published in Berlin in German language. In the 2nd edition from 1746 is even a first description of marginal periodontitis. Fauchard remote caries with files and rare fiddle with a drill. The cavity it filled with lead and tin which have been compressed with special instruments.

Works

• Le surgeries dentiste, ou Traité des dents. (1728)