Review article
Marking the 90th Anniversary: Eduard Radošević, Pioneer of University Education in Dentistry in Croatia
Jelena Dumančić
; Department of Dental Anthropology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Zvonimir Kaić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2213-9946
; Acadamy of Medical Sciences and Croatian Dental Chamber, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Eduard Radošević had come a long way from a doctor of medicine, to a dentistry specialist, educator and investigator. He studied medicine in Vienna, and he specialized in dentistry in Berlin. In 1922, he was entrusted with the education in dentistry (Croatian: stomatologija i zubarstvo) at the School of Medicine in Zagreb, which marked the beginning of dental education in Zagreb. He claimed that only with the support of the basic sciences, physical chemistry, physiology, mathematics and similar sciences, you can improve scientific work in dentistry, which could have an impact on clinical work. His habilitation titled “Problems of dentistry in the light of physical chemistry” was published in 1922. The number of his publications increased with the years and reached its climax in 1935 with his life work “Physiology and pathology of the teeth”. He considered teeth to be semipermeable membranes, and the processes inside them with regard to physical chemistry. Many of his investigations were dedicated to caries; he considered it an “infectious disease that occurs due to a certain state of permeability”. Special attention was given to enamel defects, accumulation and significance of calculus, saliva, hypersensitive dentin, prophylaxis and treatment of caries and pulpal diseases, as well as other clinical problems. He died at the age of 55, so his scientific, educational and clinical work was cut short. His pioneer work was a continuation of the efforts of the members of the Association of Croatian Dentists from 1903 that enabled a development of dental medicine in an equal medical branch and a scientific category.
Keywords
Education, Dental; Dentists; Dentistry, history; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
86839
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Publication date:
24.9.2012.
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