KNOW THE HISTORY OF OPERATIVE DENTISTRY
According to Vimal K Sikri's book, Textbook of Operative Dentistry, When attempting to forget the past, it is customary to employ the phrase "the past is a history." But the million-dollar question is, 'Can we forget the past, or should we forget the past?' Winston Churchill's response is appropriate. "The longer you can look back, the farther you can look ahead," he remarked. It is a well-known reality that without knowledge of the past, one cannot completely appraise the challenges of the present. The same is true in dentistry, and more specifically, in Operative Dentistry. In order to inspire the future, the past is remembered here in a humble manner. Because writing was scarce throughout the age of primitive medicine and dentistry, history is unable to chronicle with confidence when and by whom dentistry was first performed. Early attempts in dentistry were undertaken by Europeans and Arabians, who were primarily interested in goldwork prosthesis...