The two American dentists who carried anesthesia from the dental chair to the operating room: Horace Wells with nitrous oxide and William Morton with ether, whose public demonstration in 1846 at the Massachusetts General Hospital opened the age of painless surgery. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a dentist. It excludes the physicians and surgeons who used the methods afterward.
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Doc Holliday (Wikipedia)
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Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
Georg Carabelli (source article)
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Georg Carabelli was a court dentist to the Austrian Emperor and co-founder of the stomatology clinic at the University of Vienna.
Antoni Cieszyński (source article)
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Among his contributions to dentistry are the rules of isometry
Horace Wells (Wikipedia)
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Horace Wells (January 21, 1815, January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide (or laughing gas).
William T. G. Morton (Wikipedia)
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William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819, July 15, 1868) was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846.
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