Location: Ayala Avenue Extension cor. Kamagong Street, Makati
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1961
Marker text:
DENTAL PROFESSION IN THE PHILIPPINES
IN 1850 PROFESSIONAL DENTISTRY BEGAN IN THE PHILIPPINES WHEN M. FERTRI, A FRENCH DENTIST FROM HONGKONG, ESTABLISHED A CLINIC IN MANILA AT CORNER BARBOSA AND R. HIDALGO, QUIAPO, FIRST FILIPINO TO PRACTICE DENTISTRY WAS JOSE ARVEALO, BETTER KNOWN AS CAPITAN CHENCHENG, 1852; HIS DAUGHTER CATALINA AREVALO MEJIA WAS FIRST FILIPINO WOMAN DENTIST. FIRST DENTAL ASSOCIATION, SOCIEDAD DENTAL DE FILIPINAS, ORGANIZED AT CORNER ESCOLTA AND SODA, MANILA, BY SEVERAL DENTISTS HEADED BY DR. G.R. MATEO AND INAUGURATED FEBRUARY 1908; FIRST RECOGNIZED DENTAL COLLEGE, COLEGIO DENTAL DEL LICEO DE MANILA, 12 JUNE 1912, LATER RENAMED PHILIPPINE DENTAL COLLEGE; FIRST DENTAL PUBLICATION, JOURNAL OF THE PHILIPPINE DENTAL ASSOCIATION PUBLISHED JANUARY 1948.
COMPLIMENTS OF DR. G. ERAÑA
