Georg Carabelli

Georg Carabelli, styled Edler von Lunkaszprie, was a Hungarian dentist and professor of dental surgery in Vienna, born in Pest in 1787 and died in Vienna in 1842. He held a minor noble rank referring to the town of Lunkaszprie, now Luncasprie in Bihor County, Romania. He served as court dentist to the Austrian Emperor and was co-founder of the stomatology clinic at the University of Vienna. The Cusp of Carabelli, a small additional cusp sometimes found on the mesiolingual corner of an upper molar, was first illustrated in his textbook of oral anatomy of 1842 and later described in his handbook of dentistry, published after his death in 1844. He wrote many textbooks and monographs, including a history of dentistry.