Dentistry has evolved significantly since its origins in ancient Egypt over 4,000 years ago. It now includes several specialties like general dentistry, endodontics, oral surgery, prosthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, and oral pathology. Dentistry is important as it provides preventative care and treatments to correct dental issues, improving quality of life. Understanding and publishing research in English is also crucial for dentists to stay up to date on advances and share cases internationally. The overall goals of dentistry are to train dentists to provide good dental services and help people feel satisfied with their oral health.

1. DENTISTRY
Diego Herrera Jaramillo
Ximena Betancourt Franco
Camila Echeverri Castro

2. SHORT HISTORY
● Dentistry appears in the year 2600 a.c,with some Egyptian texts.
● Hippocrates and Aristotle wrote about dentistry, specifically about treating decaying
teeth.
● In 1530 appears the first book dedicated to dentistry.
● Bernardino Landete Aragó was a pioneer of the Spanish stomatology and creator of oral
or maxillofacial surgery in that country.
● Dentistry today has undergone severe modifications according to the demands of modern
life with the appearance of new specialties between or other events that mark today.

3. SPECIALITIES
● General odontology
● Endodontics
● Oral and maxillofacial
surgery
● Prosthodontics
● Pediatric Dentistry
● Periodontics
● Oral and maxillofacial
pathology

4. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF DENTISTRY?
● Dentistry has evolved with the use of new
techniques, restoration materials, cosmetic
dentistry and dental implants, among others,
having a broad labor market to provide care
to a large part of the population at all levels.
● It is to the dentist that we can turn to receive
preventive treatments or to correct any
problem with our teeth or gums.

5. ● All the scientific and technological advances
are published in ENGLISH, and that to be up
to date and offer their problem, as well as to
publish cases in journals or international
congresses, they need to handle english.
Hence the importance acquired by training in
this language.
RELEVANCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THEIR
PROFESSION

6. PURPOSES
-To train ourselves to offer good services.
-To help people feel satisfied with their teeth.

7. Practice
● Cariology:
The study of dental caries and its development.

8. ● Endodontrics:
Endodontics encompasses the study (practice) of the basic and clinical sciences of
normal dental pulp, the etiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and
injuries of the dental pulp along with associated periradicular conditions.

9. ● Periodontics:
Periodontics is a branch of the medical-surgical odontological specialty that
studies the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions
that affect the tissues that support the dental organs.

10. ● Orthodontics:
Orthodontia, also called orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, is a specialty of
dentistry that deals with the diagnosis, prevention and correction of malpositioned teeth
and jaws.

11. We also perform procedures such as
● Oral surgery
● Advanced oral surgery
● Maxillofacial surgery
● Pharmacology