dental offices on the planet. But it is worth remembering that, according to the recipe, just spitting was no use: it was still necessary to make a request - perhaps addressed to the miraculous amphibian - for the pain to be, in fact, taken away.
Before that, however, it is known that there were also less strange options for resolving toothache. A papyrus written around 3700 BC suggests that the Egyptians used natural balms to alleviate the problem. The Chinese, in approximately 2700 BC, resorted to acupuncture to relieve the pain that arises with cavities. It was even them, the Chinese, who around 600 AD created silver metallic alloys and performed the first fillings in history. Barber shops: the first dental offices in history? Around the 12th century - the period of the Crusades, when figures like the English king Ricardo Coração de Leão and the Portuguese Afonso I became popular - surgeons-barbers, professionals specialized in beard, hair, mustache and, if necessary, also in dental arch - strong and agile men but without any study or technique . In Europe at that time, they were called to monasteries to cut the hair of clergy and ended up having access to the medical and dental techniques of the time, of which the church was the main holder. Subsequently, these professionals learned certain procedures and offered services such as tooth extraction to their usual customers. It was undoubtedly quite a differentiator.


In Brazil, in 1631, a Royal Charter determined that unlicensed surgeons and barbers should be fined two thousand reis for removing teeth. The professionals who had special licenses granted by the Master Surgeon were the only ones who could practice the techniques without any kind of problem.












the beginning of dental art as a profession in Brazil, which only began to be regulated in 1884, with the creation of the training course in the dental field, more precisely on October 25 of that year, but still as an extension of the medical course. Since then, dentistry has become independent and, in Brazil alone, more than 200 higher education courses that exclusively teach its practice have been created. Currently, we have the largest population of dentists on the planet - estimated at 280,000 professionals - and our dental schools are among the best in the world.
Fortunately, scientific knowledge has evolved and the dental profession has been established - and more grounded techniques against toothache as well. The first dental school - or the one that would come closest to the ones we know today - appeared in 1839, in the United States. It was called College of Dental Surgery and was established in Baltimore by Chaplin Harris.

As you can see, dentistry has evolved very quickly over the course of a few years. Dr. Luiz Flávio Nobre's offices are intended to accompany this evolution, offering services performed by competent professionals, committed to science, and which has the latest technology necessary to achieve the best objectives. We are a family owned and operated business.