title: Chief Dental Officers for England and the development of dental services in the United Kingdom.
abstract: The United Kingdom currently holds the Presidency of the European Union. The Department of Health for England has taken the opportunity to support a history of the development of dental services in the UK, focusing in particular on the role played by its chief dental officers. Emeritus professor Stanley Gelbier was asked to undertake the project. Until December 2002 he was professor of dental public health at the Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Dental Institute of King's College London. For many years Professor Gelbier has been interested in the history of dentistry. He has served as deputy and then curator of the Museum of the British Dental Association since 1983 and has researched and written widely on dental history especially in relation to the development of community and public health services.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, London, UK. s.gelbier@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gelbier
mesh_terms: D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000266:history*; D003815:Dentists / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011636:Public Health Dentistry / Q000266:history*; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom