A brief history of the development and use of vulcanised rubber in dentistry

Until the late nineteenth century, denture baseplates and removable orthodontic appliances were usually made of gold. Though now largely forgotten, the discovery of vulcanised rubber was instrumental in making these forms of dental treatment widely available to the general public. While Charles Good...

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Autor principal: Stephens, Christopher
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37117369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-5735-7
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description Until the late nineteenth century, denture baseplates and removable orthodontic appliances were usually made of gold. Though now largely forgotten, the discovery of vulcanised rubber was instrumental in making these forms of dental treatment widely available to the general public. While Charles Goodyear is recognised for his role in the development of vulcanite in America, that of Thomas Hancock in the UK is less well-known.
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spelling pubmed-101475662023-04-30 A brief history of the development and use of vulcanised rubber in dentistry Stephens, Christopher Br Dent J General Until the late nineteenth century, denture baseplates and removable orthodontic appliances were usually made of gold. Though now largely forgotten, the discovery of vulcanised rubber was instrumental in making these forms of dental treatment widely available to the general public. While Charles Goodyear is recognised for his role in the development of vulcanite in America, that of Thomas Hancock in the UK is less well-known. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-04-28 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10147566/ /pubmed/37117369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-5735-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .© The Author(s) 2023
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