A collection of articles concentrated on the Enlightenment in France argues for a scaled-down interpretation of the significance of the movement.

Presents a comprehensive picture of ongoing dental research in terms of project titles and descriptions, investigators, subject areas, sponsors, preforming institutions, and funds.

Here is presented for the first time an overview of dental practice and the providers of dental treatment at the close of the eighteenth century in some of the major countries of western Europe and further afield. It draws on previously under-explored primary sources, rigorously referenced, and enables comparison of and contrast within the emergent specialty in rapidly-changing social and political environments. The overall picture challenges conventional wisdom and will be of interest to social as well as to dental and medical historians.