TOMES, Sir John (1815 – 1895)
1815 – 1895
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1848 CE
#3683
A course of lectures on dental physiology and surgery.
Tomes invented a set of anatomically correct forceps for tooth extraction, thereby elevating this device, which had been previously neglected, to dentistry’s most important extraction instrument. This book was r…
1856 CE
#3683.1
On the presence of fibrils of soft tissue in the dentinal tubes.
Tomes described and drew the protoplasmic processes from the odontoblasts, which are known as “Tomes’s fibrils”. These had been previously seen by Johannes Müller and others.