Since when has dental disease been treated?

prehistoric times

According to primitive historic records, what are some ways people treated oral pain?

Incantations, chemical and vegetable plasters, and various rinses to treat oral pain.

What were early substitutes
for natural teeth made of?

First, of bones and teeth of animals; and then from mother-of-pearl, ivory and jeweler's enamel baked on carved bone or metal tooth
plates.

When did medical doctors start studying the mouth more seriously?

mid-eighteenth century

Who is considered to be the Father of Modern Dentistry?

Pierre
Fauchard

When was the first textbook (Le Chirurgien Dentiste) about dentistry published?

1728

When did dentistry first arrive in America? (HINT: George
Washington was among the most famous of early dental patients
for whom prosthetic teeth were made.)

~1766

Who was the dentist to take cases from other dentists and, hence, establish the first commercial dental lab in America?

Dr. Stowe began taking cases from others in 1883; in 1887, he opened a dental laboratory.

What was the name of the first commercial dental lab in America?

Stowe and Eddy; because Dr. Stowe was later joined by his cousin, Frank Eddy.

By what year were most dental labs managed by dental technicians?

1910

What is the NADL?