Bishop M G H, Gelbier S, Gibbons D
Oral Health Services Research and the Schools of Dental Nursing, Guy's King's and St Thomas' Dental Institute, London.
Br Dent J. 2002 Jan 12;192(1):51-3. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4801289.
The question of how the profession of dentistry became what it is today, an independent and vigorous one, is an absorbing study. In this analysis of the legislation of the mid-sixteenth century and its effect on modern oral health care delivery, two Acts in particular are notable for their importance in the development of the self-determining practise of dentistry as we now enjoy it in the United Kingdom. The first of these is the 1540 Act uniting the Barbers' and Surgeons' Companies, and the second is one dating from two years later; 'A Bill that Persons, being no common Surgeons, may minister Medicines, notwithstanding the Statute.' Apart from a brief period of 35 years extending from the Dentists Act of 1921 to the Dentists Act of 1956, when the Dental Board of the United Kingdom (which after 1956 became the General Dental Council), was subject to the over-riding control of the General Medical Council, the delivery of oral health care in England has enjoyed an independence which is here identified as having its origin in these Acts 450 years ago in the reign of Henry VIII.
牙科行业如何发展成如今这样一个独立且蓬勃发展的行业，这一问题是一项引人入胜的研究。在对16世纪中叶的立法及其对现代口腔医疗服务的影响进行分析时，有两项法案因其对英国目前所享有的自主牙科执业发展的重要性而格外引人注目。其中第一项是1540年将理发师公司和外科医生公司合并的法案，第二项法案则是两年后的一项法案；“一项法案，规定非普通外科医生的人员，尽管有相关法规，仍可给药。” 除了从1921年《牙医法案》到1956年《牙医法案》这一短暂的35年期间，英国牙科委员会（1956年后成为英国牙科总会）受英国医学总会的全面控制外，英格兰的口腔医疗服务一直享有独立性，这里认为其起源于450年前亨利八世统治时期的这些法案。
