Dental Art

Dates: 1.1.2009 to 31.12.2009. For centuries, the activities of dentists and the symptoms of tooth disease have been used as themes in works of art, drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculpture and woodcarvings. These images are a valuable source of information about providers of dental care and different treatments for toothache. The museum has an extensive collection of fine art depicting dentistry. Dentistry has long been a subject for humour in cartoon-art. The golden age of political and social caricature and satire was between 1780 and 1830 when three artists were active There follows a set of three English engravings, which date from the beginning of the 19th century, showing three options available when a tooth extraction was required. Finally we see a barber-surgeon at work in the 17th century in the Netherlands.

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