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By the early 18th century, French dentist Pierre Fauchard was strapping patients’ teeth to metal arches to wrangle crooked smiles into submission.

Even after Fauchard’s innovations, gruesome and bloody services persisted.

Pierre Fauchard, the first self-styled dentiste, helped put a stop to that with his scientific approach to oral health.

Fauchard believed that what the world’s wealthy needed was to have nice teeth that functioned properly, and he became rich in his own right by providing dentures to Parisian elites.

To Professor Percy Rogers Howe of Harvard went U. S. dentistry's prime award, the Fauchard Medal, for demonstrating how poor nutrition causes teeth to decay.