James Garretson

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James Edmund Garretson MB (UPenn), DDS(Baltimore), who added to the Dental College in Philadelphia, a Clinic for Oral Surgery. With his work A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws and associate parts, published in 1869, he helped to established oral and maxillofacial surgery as a specialty in the USA.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Publications

• (1898) A system of oral surgery and dentistry: Being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts. J.B. Lippincott Co.