TOPIC: INTRODUCTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHODONTICS🎯 KEY POINTS:🔹Ambroise Pare (1517–1590) was first to close palatal perforations.🔹Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was famous Danish astronomer who made an artificial nose of gold and silver.🔹First artificial eye was made of glass in 1579 in Venice.🔹Pierre Fauchard (1728), considered as the father of modern dentistry, used palatal perforations to retain artificial dentures.🔹Snell (1823) fabricated gold plate obturator.🔹Goodyear (1855) developed vulcanite rubber used for improved velar design.🔹Bulbian (1942) introduced the use of prevulcanized latex for pliable facial prosthetic restoration.🔹American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics was formed in 1953.🔹Branemark…
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