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The introduction of the paraprofessional into the ranks of healers in dentistry proved a tremendous step forward in countering the effects of dental disease. To Dr. Alfred Civilion Fones, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, goes the credit for raising the profession of dental hygiene to the important position it now occupies.

While attending a meeting of the Northeastern Dental Society in 1899, Fones heard a lecture by Dr. D. D. Smith of Philadelphia on periodic oral prophylaxis. Impressed, Fones returned home and for five years used Smith's techniques. In 1905 he trained his office assistant to do prophylactic work for the children in his practice, and she thus became the first dental hygienist in the world.

Fones later proposed the idea of a training school for dental hygienists, a term he coined.  Despite strong opposition from the dental profession, he opened the Fones Clinic for Dental Hygienists in November 1913, in his garage.



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