Self-organization of the dental community in St. Petersburg (historical essay)

Abstract

In St. Petersburg, starting from 1883 and over the next 140 years, various professional dental public organizations (societies, trade unions, association) were created and functioned, analyzing the activities of which one can find a certain similarity in the tasks they solve. One way or another, almost all of them, despite the specific conditions of a particular historical era, more or less actively performed essentially the same functions related to the organization of scientific communication of dental specialists, the protection of their rights, the regulation of dental practice, and the development of professional education, social design in the healthcare sector.
 Turning to the retrospective of the self-organization of the dental community allows us to establish historical continuity between the modern association of dentists and the first societies of dentists, to feel the connection of times and understand that people who devoted their lives to the dental specialty and make up this community are united today by the same values that have always united them, regardless of the change of social formations.