Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Archival
Dental
Classification
Archival, Publications
Dental
Accession Number
010020147
Description
Dental journal; grey cardstock cover with two staple closure; white glossy pages inside printed with black ink; first section is an introduction by the author; second section consists of sixteen magnified black and white images of resorption in jaw bones with explanatory text below; 28 pages
Dental journal; grey cardstock cover with two staple closure; white glossy pages inside printed with black ink; first section is an introduction by the author; second section consists of sixteen magnified black and white images of resorption in jaw bones with explanatory text below; 28 pages
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Printed on cover: "Bone Resorption in Red Marrow Hyperplasia // in Human Jaws // BY // HAROLD KEITH BOX, D.D.S., PH. D., F.R.M.S. (ENG.) // Research Professor of Periodontology, // Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto // BULLETIN NUMBER TWENTY-ONE // ISSUED BY // THE CANADIAN DENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION // July, 1936"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-5 Box 21
Dimension Notes
Length 22.7 cm x Width 15.2 cm x Depth 0.1 cm
Condition Remarks
Cover worn at binding; cover faded around front edges
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Reference Comments
"Dynamo in Dentistry", Bruce Ward, The Ottawa Citizen, August 9, 1991, p. B8
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; Dr. Harold Keith Box (1890-1956) was born in Carleton Place, Ontario; he became internationally well-known in the 1920s, creating a stir when he discovered the cause of pyorrhea, a common tooth disease where the gums were inflamed, causing teeth to be loosened; he discovered the disease began in the lining of the tooth socket, between the bone and the tooth, as opposed to beginning by tartar or in another part of the body; he also proved that a tooth in which the pulp and the dentine were diseased could be saved, instead of extracted, as long as the cementum, the bone covering the dentine within the root, was healthy; he spent his career doing research at the University of Toronto and never wished for financial gain or fame, though at the time his discoveries were seen as comparable to Banting and Best's discovery of insulin, which happened only a few years prior at the same university