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I have a new dental group. The dentists
are female. To be fair, I didn’t choose them because of their gender. They had
an opening, and their office was near my home. So, I didn’t have to drive all
the way downtown, and then find and pay for parking.
I had a pleasant experience with the excellent woman
dentist and was pleased that I decided to use her. This got me thinking. Who was
the first female to take up dentistry?
After some research, I learned of two exceptional women who practiced dentistry in the eighteen hundreds.
1855: Emeline
Roberts Jones, (1836–1916), became the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States. She
married the dentist Daniel Jones when she was a teenager, and had two
children, a son and a daughter. She became her husband’s
assistant in 1855.
Her
husband believed that dentistry was not a suitable career for a woman. He
thought the “frail and clumsy fingers” of women made them poor dentists.
However, she studied in secret. And after
her husband's death in 1864 she continued to practice dentistry by herself, in
eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island. She often traveled with a portable
dentistry chair. From 1876 until her retirement in 1915 she had her own
practice in New Haven, Connecticut.
It was one of the largest and most lucrative practices in Connecticut.
Emeline
served on the Woman’s Advisory Council of the World’s Columbian Dental Congress
in 1893. In 1912 she was elected to an honorary membership in the Connecticut
State Dental Society, and in 1914 she was elected to an honorary membership in
the National Dental Association.
Lucy Hobbs Taylor was the first woman to graduate from dental school. Born
in 1833, Taylor attended the Franklin Academy in New York. She taught for ten
years in Michigan, and in 1859 moved to Cincinnati where she applied to
Eclectic Medical College. She was denied based on her gender, although she
studied privately under the supervision of a teacher from the school. She then
applied to the Ohio College of Dentistry and she was refused admission because
of her gender. Again, she studied under a private program with a professor from
the school. She applied to the dentistry
program once more and was rejected, so she opened her own practice in
Cincinnati in 1861. When the Ohio College of Dentistry decided to accept women,
she matriculated as a senior in 1865 because of her experience and graduated in
1866.
It is believed Lucy Hobbs Taylor was
the first woman in the world to earn a doctorate in dentistry.
Emeline Roberts
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