Dentistry didn’t gain widespread status as a medical practice until the late 19th century. At U-M, the Medical School denied proposals to establish a dentistry chair on three occasions. Eventually, a dental school — the nation’s first state university dental school — was established on campus. Read more about the effort to create a dental school at U-M and the fight for classroom space between dental and homeopathic students in this edition of It Happened at Michigan.
