James Garretson

Male, Deceased Person

1829 – 1895

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Who was James Garretson?

James Edmund Garretson MB, DDS, was a professor at the Dental College of Philadelphia, a clinic for oral surgery. With his work A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts, first published in 1869, he helped to establish oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the United States. He is known as the father of oral surgery.

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Born
1829
Died
1895

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on July 23, 2013

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