Naidu Rahul, Gelbier Stanley
Professor of Dental Public Health The University of the West Indies.
Honorary Professor in History of Dentistry, King's College London Emeritus-Professor of Dental Public Health, University of London.
J Hist Dent. 2025 Spring;73(1):63-68. doi: 10.58929/jhd.2025.073.01.63.
This review explores dental care in the British West Indies (later termed the Commonwealth Caribbean) during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Information on dental care is limited for this region at that time. First-hand accounts of dentists who visited and worked in the region, newspaper items and documentation of the early steps towards dental laws and regulation in some territories provide some insights. Dentistry in the region was influenced by international developments in the profession and visiting dentists, particularly from the United States of America and United Kingdom, where dental training, qualifications and laws pertaining to registration and regulation were being established, along with advances in techniques and materials. These developments continued into the late colonial and post-colonial period leading eventually to the establishment of dental schools and locally qualified dentists in the region.
这篇综述探讨了19世纪末和20世纪初英属西印度群岛（后来称为英联邦加勒比地区）的牙科护理情况。当时关于该地区牙科护理的信息有限。访问过该地区并在那里工作的牙医的第一手记述、报纸文章以及一些地区早期制定牙科法律和法规的文件提供了一些见解。该地区的牙科受到该行业国际发展以及来访牙医的影响，尤其是来自美利坚合众国和联合王国的牙医，在这些国家，与注册和监管相关的牙科培训、资格和法律正在确立，同时技术和材料也在不断进步。这些发展一直持续到殖民后期和后殖民时期，最终导致该地区建立了牙科学校并培养出了本地合格的牙医。
