Thomas Fillebrown

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Fillebrown (1836-1908) was an American dentist and the head of the American Dental Association from 1897-1898.

Fillebrown was born in Winthrop, Maine. Fillebrown was a dentist and for many years a professor of dentristry at Harvard University from 1883-1904. He was a successful oral surgeon and performed many operations to fix cleft pallets. Fillebrown held a degree in dentistry from Harvard and a medical degree from Bowdoin College. At the time of his death Fillebrown was serving as president of the American Academy of Dental Science.

[edit] Sources

• The Journal of The Allied Dental Societies, p. 101-113
• Hyamson, Albert Montefiore. A Dictionary of Universal Biography of All ages and all people. p. 211.