Centenary of the Costa Rican Dentistry Surgeons College
Abstract
Since the appearance of humanity on Earth, countless microorganisms have coexisted with human beings; some pathogens make us sick and others friendly ones that favor us, or simply do not affect us. This is how very strong agents have favored the development of diseases that have affected man, the plagues that have accompanied us throughout history, but at the same time this condition has found a response from the same human conglomerate; in society, proactive, innovative and visionary leaders have stood out, who have always been seeking solutions to the negative situations that overwhelm us, fanning the flame of knowledge, in the heat of tenacious action.
In Mesoamerica and specifically in the territory that we occupy today in Costa Rica, the great activity of dental treatments has been documented, with restorations, jade inlays, aesthetic wear or definition of hierarchy with "dental mutilations", procedures both curative and aesthetic, which the pre-Hispanic shaman-dentists carried out.
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