title: The Founders' and Benefactors' Lecture. General dental practice--the evolution of a discipline.
abstract: My subject is the development of general dental practice from its roots in antiquity; through the Victorian concerns to protect the public by formalising registration and training; past the present day with our enthusiasms for postgraduate education and on into the future. In the course of this journey, I will seek to demonstrate that general practice is changing from the provider of basic solutions to basic problems and becoming a complex, multi-layered career. Indeed, that it is becoming a discipline in its own right.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of General Dental Practioners, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lowndes
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000266:history; D013222:State Medicine / Q000266:history