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My subject is the development of general dental practice from its roots in antiquity; through the Victorian concerns to protect the public by formalising registration and training; past the present day with our enthusiasms for postgraduate education and on into the future. In the course of this journey, I will seek to demonstrate that general practice is changing from the provider of basic solutions to basic problems and becoming a complex, multi-layered career. Indeed, that it is becoming a discipline in its own right
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Lowndes, P. The Founders' and Benefactors' Lecture. General dental practice--the evolution of a discipline. Br Dent J 183, 299–303 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4809500
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4809500