title: Ethics--dental registration in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
abstract: In the histories of dentistry, some mention is made of the licensing of tooth-drawers, and those who provided dental healthcare before the term Dentist started to become general in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One of the most striking references to licensing appears in a little piece of doggerel printed under a 1768 print by Dixon after Harris.
authors.affiliation: BSDMFR, Hertford, Hertfordshire.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bishop
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gelbier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gibbons
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D003816:Dentists, Women / Q000266:history; D004990:Ethics, Dental / Q000266:history; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D008005:Licensure, Dental / Q000266:history*; D012042:Registries; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom