#DidYouKnow that Maryland chartered the first College of Dental Surgery in the world in November 1840? The college was the brainchild of two Baltimore men, Horace H. Hayden and Chapin Aaron Harris, who struggled for years to improve the education of dentists by melding the medical and technical skills needed to care for teeth in a time when anyone could claim to be a dentist by hanging up a sign. Learn about the persistence of these two remarkable pioneers in “The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and the Birth of Professional Dentistry, 1840” by Carl P. Lewis Jr. in this throwback issue of the “Maryland Historical Magazine” (vol. 59, no. 3, Sept. 1964) when you click on the "Maryland Historical Magazine Article" tab in our bio link. Image: Dental College, Assembly Buildings, photograph by D.R. Stiltz and Company, Baltimore, c.1864. Maryland Center for History and Culture, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, D.R. Stiltz and Company photograph collection, PP106.25 #DYK #Maryland #MarylandH...