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    Greene Vardiman Black was one of the founders of modern dentistry in the United States. He invented the cord driven dental engine in 1870 and established foundational principles for cavity design and dental terminology that are still used today. Black studied medicine and dentistry, opening his own dental practice and later teaching at dental colleges, making significant contributions to the fields of operative dentistry, dental pathology, and histology through his research and publications.

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    Greene Vardiman Black was one of the founders of modern dentistry in the United States. He invented the cord driven dental engine in 1870 and established foundational principles for cavity design and dental terminology that are still used today. Black studied medicine and dentistry, opening his own dental practice and later teaching at dental colleges, making significant contributions to the fields of operative dentistry, dental pathology, and histology through his research and publications.

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    Greene Vardiman Black was one of the founders of modern dentistry in the United States. He invented the cord driven dental engine in 1870 and established foundational principles for cavity design and dental terminology that are still used today. Black studied medicine and dentistry, opening his own dental practice and later teaching at dental colleges, making significant contributions to the fields of operative dentistry, dental pathology, and histology through his research and publications.

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    GREENE VARDIMAN BLACK

    Greene Vardiman Black is known as one of the founders of modern dentistry in the United
    States. He is also known as the father of operative dentistry and because of his studies and
    research he is remembered as one of the greatest dentists of all time. He was born on
    August 3, 1836, in Winchester-Illinois, United States. As a child he lived on a farm with his
    father William, his mother Mary and five brothers. He had a meager educational
    advantage by going to a new-room school near his father's farm few months each year in
    winter. He showed very little interest in school, however preferring to wander through the
    woods studying nature and wild-life which developed his keen sense of observation and
    an analytical mind which in turn turned out to be the foundation of his life achievement.

    At the age of 17, he lives with his older brother, Thomas Black, who was a graduate
    physician at Louisville Medical College and enjoyed a lucrative practice. His brother
    happened to be the tutor who introduced him to the world of medicine. Under his
    leadership acquired his first knowledge that made him interested in her. For four years he
    studied medicine and anatomy. He seemed to be going to medicine but met the dentist
    Dr. J.C. Speer and became interested in dentistry and thus began his apprenticeship. He
    assisted Dr. Speer in his practice by learning everything about the profession. After the
    Civil War of which he took part, it moves to Jacksonville, Illinois. Where he opens his own
    consulting room becoming a respected and recognized dentist. Black married in 1859 with
    Jane L. Coughenour, who tragically died four years later along with his firstborn. He
    married a second time with Elizabeth Davenport, with whom he had three children: Clara,
    Margaret and Arthur. Dedicated much of his time to be: researcher, teacher and writer.
    From 1870 to 1880, he taught histology, pathology, and dental surgery at Missouri Dental
    College, where he was awarded the degree of dental surgeon in 1978. Later the family
    Black moves to the city of Chicago, where he is named professor of dental pathology of
    the Chicago Collage of Dental.

    He invented the cord driven dental engine with a foot motor in 1870. The formula for
    amalgam that Black worked out is almost unchanged to this day he classified for the first
    time the dental caries and standardized dental terminologies. Black stablished principles
    governing desing of cavities and he pubished he is concept “EXTENSION FOR
    PREVENTION” in 1891 in an article in dental cosmos titled “ MANAGEMENT OF ENAMEL
    MARGINS among published books of the doctor one: formation of poison by
    microorganism” “the periosteum and the periodental membrane” “operative dentistry
    and special dental pathology”.

    Greene Vardiman Black died on 31 august, 1915 at the grand old age of 79 year leaving
    behind his wife an a rich heritage of the fame sterling qualities and was buried at the
    Dimond Grove Cementery Jacksonvile.
    We admire him for developing and researching on various topics such as: dental fluorosis,
    the best composition for dental amalgam, painless extraction with the application of
    nitrous oxide, among others.

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