Abstract
William Warwick James was one of the most inspiring and outstanding dental surgeons of his time, a key researcher in dentistry and zoology and a pioneer in maxillofacial surgery. Most maxillofacial departments hold sets of his dental elevators. He wrote a major wartime work with Benjamin Fickling on the treatment of jaw and facial injuries.
Highlights
Ben Fickling thought that William Warwick James was “the most remarkable dentist of his generation”.1 He was born on 20 September 1874 at Wellingborough, Northants, where his self-educated father, William Warwick James, was a local grocer
Having decided to become a dentist he was apprenticed to William Hodgskin Hope, a local practitioner “who found him an eager and apt pupil”.5. It would have given him a chance to learn about dental mechanics. This was common at the time and would probably have exempted him from the course at dental school
At the Dental Hospital of London he qualified with the Licence in Dental Surgery (LDS) in 1898; at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School
Summary
Ben Fickling thought that William Warwick James was “the most remarkable dentist of his generation”.1 He was born on 20 September 1874 at Wellingborough, Northants, where his self-educated father, William Warwick James, was a local grocer. Warwick James, as he became known, was elected a dental surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street by the age of 30 years.
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