Fauchard House Dental Surgery

Trusted for 11 years

The surgery is named after Pierre Fauchard whose importance to the dental profession is recognised by a recent article by Lynch, O’Sullivan and McGillycuddy in the British Dental Journal: “If we reflect on the advances in dental practice made over the past four centuries, it is clear that the most significant contributions to the development of our profession were made by a small number of unusually gifted practitioners.  Pre-eminent among them are Pierre Fauchards (1678-1761), who is widely acclaimed as the ‘Father of Modern Dentistry’.  He was concerned by the ignorance of many of colleagues, and deplored the selfishness of the more able among them who guarded the secrets of their clinical techniques.  In 1728 he published a comprehensive textbook, Le Chirurgien Dentiste, detailing the contemporary state of dental knowledge and making his own observations. Le Chirurgien Dentiste swept away the old attitudes of secrecy introducing an era of openness and scientific evaluation” (2006: 779).