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Thomas Fillebrown was a son of James Bowdoin and Almira (Butler) Fillebrown of W inthrop, Maine.
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The following computer-generated description may contain errors and does not represent the quality of the book. Ft5% i rf Preface. For many years the author has felt that there was need of a text-book on Operative Dentistry, that should be confined more especially to the descriptions of the manual operations required for Xhe preservation of the natural teeth. This volume is the result of this feeling, quickened by the invitation of the National Association of Dental Faculties to undertake the work. With what success it is accomplished, the future will determine. The author hopes that it may at least serve as one step toward the production of something that shall serve the purpose fully. The effort has been made to avoid unnecessary detail and to leave out all that could be dispensed with, consistently with clearness. Hence History has not been attempted, and only enough of definitions, etiology and symptoms of diseases given to make clear the description of the operation to be performed. While intending to include the principles involved in all ways of performing each operation, repetitions under the heads of different methods have been avoided, and authors names have been generally omitted from the text. The work is not intended as a substitute for larger works, but as an epitome of the practical application of the principles discussed at length in more extensive volumes, and to these the student is referred for exhaustive discussion. The most advanced nomenclature has been adopted asfar as professional sentiment would sustain the author. Canine has been left for dogs and cuspid constantly used. Tartar has been discarded as unscientific, and calculus substituted. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Tags: teeth tooth crown gold root cloth surface dentistry pulp operative cut place diseases plate form gum filling position hospital medical
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Thomas Fillebrown was a son of James Bowdoin and Almira (Butler) Fillebrown of W inthrop, Maine.
He received his early education in the Winthrop public school, and Towle Academy, and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, from which he graduated in 1859.
After serving a term as a teacher in the public school of his native town, he began the study of dentistry with his father.
When the dental department of the Harvard University Medical School was established in 1867, Fillebrown entered its first class, and received the dental degree of D. M. D. , in 1869.
In 1883, he received the degree of M. D. , from the medical school of Bowdoin College.
He became a member of the dental firm of Strout & Fillebrown at Lewiston, Maine, but shortly afterward established an independent practise at Portland.
He served as one of the instructors of that institution until 1883, and as its professor of operative dentistry and oral surgery for the next twenty-one years.
Beginning in 1873, he contributed a number of articles to dental journals on operative dentistry, oral surgery, hypnosis as an anesthetic, and the physiology of vocalism. In 1889 he published A Text-book of Operative Dentistry, which was a standard work on the subject for many years.
He was a teacher of ability and a fluent public speaker, who took a prominent part in dental association work, and he was an active member of several medical societies, including the American Medical Association.
He is known as the author of: Pianoforte Music: Its History, with Biographical Sketches . .. of its Greatest Masters (1883) ; New Lessons in Harmony (1887); Lessons in Musical History (1888) ; On the Value of Certain Modern Theories, of von Ottingen and Riemann (1887) ; and as the translator of Riemann’s Klavierschule and Natur der Harmonik.
From 1869 until shortly before his death Fillebrown practised dentistry in Boston, and became one of the leading authorities of his day on the use of cohesive gold-foil for filling teeth. He was also known as a skilful oral surgeon. He was instrumental in bringing about the consolidation of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association, which merged in 1897 as the National (later the American) Dental Association, with Fillebrown as its first president.
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He was an active member of several medical societies, including the American Medical Association.
From 1871 to 1874 he was He was an enthusiastic and an inspiring teacher, whose genial disposition won him many friends, especially in his own profession.
His appearance was not prepossessing, partly because of his long reddish beard and florid complexion.
