Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Fillebrown, of Boston, was elected thirty-fifth president of the Association at the 1897 meeting at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. This was a joint meeting of the American Dental Association and the Southern Dental Association, the purpose of which was to plan a merger of the two associations. Doctor Fillebrown, dentist and physician, was a professor of operative dentistry and oral surgery at the Harvard University dental school for 21 years. Author of Textbook on Operative Dentistry, he wrote extensively for dental journals on such subjects as oral surgery, cleft lip, cleft palate, hypnosis, anesthesia, the physiology of speech, and operative dentistry. He served as president of the Maine State Dental Association. He was born in Maine in 1836 and died in 1908.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1897-1898: Thomas Fillebrown" (1977). ADA Presidents. 35.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/35
Included in
Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.