Inductees

Hartford, Connecticut — 1815-1848 Dr. Wells was born on January 21, 1815, Hartford, Vermont. He attended select schools for 12 years. He studied dentistry between 1834 and 1836 in Boston, Massachusetts, and eventually went to Hartford, Connecticut to practice dentistry. At that time he was considered a leader of his profession. In 1840, a discussion with Linus P. Brochett, Hartford, CT, showed that Wells was deeply impressed with the idea that some discovery would yet be made by which dental and other operations might be performed without pain...

Rochester, New York — 1864-1946 With the death of Dr. Burkhart on September 22, 1946, dentistry lost one of its most colorful and notable figures. As a dentist, teacher, diplomat and public spirited citizen , Dr. Burkhart was honored and respected by all who knew him. Dr. Burkhart was born Cleveland, Ohio, August 4, 1864. He became interested in dentistry when he moved to Dansville, New York, to live with a brother who was a dentist...

Paris, France — 1678-1761 Fauchard, chirurgien dentiste of Paris was born in 1678 in Brittan in a very modest home. After training as a military surgeon he settled in Paris in 1719, where he remained until his death in 1761. Modern dentistry owes its greatest debt to a remarkable Frenchman who synthesized what was known in Europe about dentistry and presented in an organized form so that all colleagues of the profession could benefit from his book...

Baltimore, Maryland — 1806-1860 Dr. Harris was born on May 6th 1806 at Pompey, New York. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Madison, Ohio, joined his brothers, James and John, a physician and began the study of medicine. In 1824, on passing the Ohio Board of Medical Censors, he began practicing medicine and surgery in Greenfield, Ohio. In 1828, Dr. Harris turned to dentistry, and by 1833 was a student of Dr. Hayden located in Baltimore. Licensed by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Harris conducted an itinerant dental practice throughout the South. In 1839, he was instrumental in establishing the world's first dental journal, the American Journal of Dental Science, published at Baltimore.

The 2015 inductee to the Pierre Fauchard Academy Wall of Fame is Per-Ingvar Branemark, M.D., Ph.D. He was a Swedish physician and research professor whose accidental discovery made him the father of the modern dental implant.

Dr. Prof. Toshio Morioka The 2017 inductee to the Pierre Fauchard Academy Wall of Fame is Emeritus Professor Morioka was born on October 15th, 1928. He gained a DDS from Osaka Dental College in 1949 and was awarded his PhD at Osaka Medical School in 1957. He was awarded a Fullbright Exchange Scholarship to the University of Washington in 1962. He became Associate Professor at the Osaka University School of Dentistry in 1967, becoming a full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kyushu University at Fukuoka in 1970.