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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Practical observations on the human teeth.

Publication Details

London: J. Johnson, 1783 CE.

Woofendale was the first professional dentist to travel to the American colonies (1766) and to set up practice there. During his two years of practice in America he may have made the first set of artificial teeth contructed in what is now the United States. He returned to England in 1769. The above work was “the most important [English] dental text of the time after Berdmore’s” (Ring).

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#3676.2
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/5514
External URLpractical-observations-on-the-human-teeth

Geographic Context

Publication place: London