Contribution of professor F.A. Zverzhkhovsky in development of military dentistry in Russsia
Professor F.A. Zverzhkhovsky, graduate of Royal Academy of Military Medicine. Diploma with distinction. Member of Professor V.A. Ratimov's Surgery Clinic under Royal Academy of Military Medicine. Convinced adherent of development of dentistry as an independent medical discipline. Dissertation for degree of Doctor of medicine: «Some aspects of consideration of empyema of maxillary sinus». Assistant lecturer of Department of odontology, the first in Russia, under Institute of Medicine for women, headed by Professor A.K. Limberg. After Professor A.K. Limberg left the department because of illness, F.A. Zverzhkhovsky became Head of department. Editor of the journal «Dentistry Bulletin». Chairman of the Board of Scientific Society of St. Petersburg odontologists. Participant of the First World War. Organiser of maxillary infirmaries and hospitals, first in Russia. Founder of Dentistry Institute under Academy of Military Medicine - a training, scientific and medical institution, the first in Russia. He was the first in Russia to officially introduce the term «dentistry» in the medical science. The author of many-volumed work - manual for doctors and students «Basics of dentiatry». In 1919 he left for Warsaw because of the aggravating state of health and lived there till the end of his life.