Our 'Dentalist of the Week'
for this week
is:
the Beautiful Black Man who founded and
opened in 2015 the first Dental Museum in
Africa and the first specialized museum in
Nigeria, called the Dema Foundation
Dental Museum, on Ilesa Road in Ilelfe,
Oson State, Nigeria, and it houses
documents concerning the history and
evolution of Dentistry in the country, and
it contains the first dental chair used in
Nigeria, along with older versions of
instruments, computers and photographs
and biographies of early professionals,
and he was the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi
Awolowo University (OAU), but it all
started when he earned, with honors, his
BS degree in 1981 and Bachelors of
Dental Surgery (BChD) in 1985 at
OAUniversity, then attended U. of Lagos
for his Master of Public Health in 1989,
after which he got a Dental Diploma in
Public Health from the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland, and he is a Foundation
Fellow with the Nigerian Academy of
Medicine, and has a PhD from U. of
Western Cape, South Africa, plus he
became a Professor at OAU and Dean of
Faculty and a Provost there, and he is a
visiting professor at multiple Dental
Schools all over, including Harvard Dental,
and he established the first government
Dental Clinic in Nigeria, while also
writing over 100 full-length, peer-reviewed
scientific papers, and he wrote at least
four books, and 50 conference abstracts
and is the Foundation Editor-in-Chief
of the African Journal of Oral Health,
along with being head of the Nigerian
Division of the International Association
for Dental research, plus he is on the
editorial boards of multiple international
and national journals, and has won
many distinguished awards all over
the world, plus there are many other
accomplishments, and he really is the
'Biggest and Baddest Dentalist' in Africa,
and we give flowers and say the name of...
...Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede [BSc Hons, BChD (Ife), MPH (Lagos), PhD (UWC), DDPH RCS (England), FFD RCS (Ireland), FICD, FNCS, FNAMed!
All Of The Manual Toothbrushing Methodologies Invented From 1932 to 2026!
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
Founder of Black Dental History Month
and
USC Dental Graduate.
If you know a Dental Practitioner who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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