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Accuracy in Dental Medicine, A New Way to Measure Trueness and Precision
Published on: April 29, 2014
James Smith Turner (1832-1904) and the British Dental Association
1History of Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute, Holmwood, Dollis Avenue, Finchley, London, N3 1UD.
British Dental Journal
|March 11, 2017
Abstract:
Together with John Tomes, J. S. Turner was a leading campaigner in the fight to advance dentistry from a trade to a profession. Through the Dental Reform Committee he promoted the establishment of a Dentists Register and then the British Dental Association. As first secretary of the BDA he guided it through its first days. He became president in 1891.
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