List of first women dentists by country

This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.

Asia and Oceania

CountryNameYear of graduationYear of starting practice
 New ZealandMargaret Caro[1]1881
 AustraliaFrances Dorothy Gray[2]1907
 IndiaVimla Sood[3]1944
 Sri LankaRosaline Karthigesu[4]1947
 IranBadri Teymourtash[5]
 PakistanFatima Jinnah[6]1923
 PhilippinesNieva Basa Eraña-Velasquez[7]
 UAEAyehsa Sultan Al Suwaidi[8]

Europe

CountryNameYear of graduationYear of starting practice
 SwedenAmalia Assur[9]1852
 UKLilian Lindsay[10]18951895
 DenmarkNicoline Møller[11]1888
 GermanyHenriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius[12]1869
 NetherlandsHenriette van Loenen-de Bordes/ Virginie Waltjen 18881889
 Spain? Josefina Landete Aragó1913
 NorwaySarah Selvik[13]
 France? Mademoiselle Duval[14]

Americas

CountryNameYear of graduationYear of starting practice
 USAEmeline Roberts Jones[15]1855
 CanadaEmma Gaudreau Casgrain[15]1898
 MexicoMargarita Chorné y Salazar [15][16]
 Argentina? Sara Justo[17]
 Brazil? Carmen Cristina Carvalho Falcon [15]1986
 ChilePaulina Starr[18]1884

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "I Am Woman...Hear Us Roar...and See Us Do Teeth! | The Smile Center". www.thesmilecenterusa.com. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Thakur, Bhartesh Singh (23 November 2016). "Nostalgic 90s: When India's 1st woman dentist visited alma mater". hindustantimes.com. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "One hundred years of dentistry in Sri Lanka". Sunday Observer. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Troy Mckenzie. WOMEN'S WORTH, PRICELESS. Trafford Publishing. p. 145. ISBN 9781490747071. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "FACTORS THAT HINDER FEMALE DENTISTS IN PURSUING THEIR CAREER" (PDF). Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Association of Philippine Orthodontists". apo.com.ph. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Reporter, Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary, Senior (2 December 2014). "Pioneering Emirati women: pilot, dental surgeon and filmmaker". GulfNews. Gulf News. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Kjellander Barbro: På Amalia Assurs tid. Några anteckningar om och kring den första svenska kvinnliga tandläkaren ['The days of Amalia Assur. Some notes about and in connection to the first female dentist in Sweden']
  10. ↑ "Lilian Lindsay (1871 - 1960)". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Inger Dübeck: Kvinders retlige stilling. I Den Store Danske. Hentet 7. October 2015
  12. ↑ Ogilvie, M.B.; Harvey, J.D. (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Routledge. p. 768. ISBN 9780415920407. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
  13. ↑ http://www.historyofdentistry.group/index_htm_files/2000Oct6.pdf
  14. ↑ Prasanna, JammulaSurya; Karunakar, Parupalli; Sumadhura, Chinta; Aishwarya, MuthapuDivya; Monica, Papishetty; Sayed, AfsaS (2015). "Women dentists: Changing the face of dentistry". Journal of Oral Research and Review. 7 (2): 69. doi:10.4103/2249-4987.172499.
  15. 1 2 3 4 "Missouri Women in the Health Sciences - Health Professions - "Women in Dentistry" by E.N. King". beckerexhibits.wustl.edu. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  16. ↑ "Publications | Pierre Fauchard Academy". www.fauchard.org. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  17. ↑ Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires. p. 476. ISBN 9780822973393.
  18. ↑ Chaney, Elsa M. (2014). Supermadre: Women in Politics in Latin America. University of Texas Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780292772632. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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