The history of dentistry and dental technology

The dental museum houses exhibits from 1700 to the present day, showing the development of dentistry and dental technology.

The Museum of Dentistry is designed to give visitors an overview of the development of dentistry from around 1700 to the present day. The oldest exhibits, a dental key and a so-called "bathers' chair", date from this period, a "bathers' chair" because at this time the art of medicine was mainly practiced by the spa workers. But there were specialists here too. They were called tooth crushers after the only known way of removing a painful tooth at the time.

Among the numerous exhibits is a picture of St. Apollonia, the patron saint of dentists. She was ordered to renounce her faith or be burned at the stake. When she refused, her teeth were broken out and when she chose martyrdom in the flames of the pyre, she is said to have proclaimed that all those who suffer from toothache and ask her for help will be relieved of their pain.