Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 10-11. (Budapest, 1958)

practical dentistry was inaugurated by the activity of the French barber and chirurgeon Ambroise Paré (1520—1590) and the publication of his book. Egyptians, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Greeks, Hebrews and Romans used to replace missing teeth by teeth of animals fixed with golden wires. A special chapter deals with the Parisian Pierre Fauchard (1678—1761) and his book published in 1728. Porcelain teeth were invented by Fonzi, a Parisien dental surgeon of Italian origin (1808) while with the invention and utilization of vulcanized caoutchouc in the middle of the 19th century the substitution of teeth came within everybody's reach.