Journal of Oral Science Research ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (9): 892-898.DOI: 10.13701/j.cnki.kqyxyj.2022.09.020

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Retrospective Survey and Prospect on Research of Dental Diseases at the Qing Court

ZHANG Jingqiu1, ZHU Mengdi2, WANG Yifei3, WANG Jiabo1, WANG Songling4*, ZHOU Jian4,5*   

  1. 1. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China;
    2. Department of General Dentistry and Emergency Dental Care, Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China;
    3. National Museum of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Beijing 100027, China;
    4. Beijing Laboratory of Oral Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China;
    5. Department of VIP Dental Service, Capital Medical University School of Stomatology, Beijing 100050, China.
  • Received:2022-07-28 Published:2022-09-26

Abstract: Research of dental diseases at the Qing Court originated during Republic of China, when the related research achievements focused on literature and relics sorting and publishing. In 1925 the Committee to Deal with the Concerns of the Deposed Imperial Family sorted and counted items at the Court and published the Publication of the Report of Palace Museum Inventory, where it can be seen that the period dental disease treatment instruments at the court were stored at the east room of Kunning Gate, classified to modern dentistry instruments; false teeth and dentures stored at pharmacy of Kunning Palace and other palaces; teeth fumigating silver devices stored at the Hall of Mental Cultivation; false teeth and dentures also found at Shoukang Palace. Since later 1950s, a large amount of literature at the Qing Court has been sorted, including documents about dental diseases and varied historical relics for dental diseases treatments been made public. At present research of Dental Diseases at the Qing Court is promising, for that it is helpful for deeper research of royal medicine, that it provides valuable research models of medical existence mode and relation to its environment under traditional Chinese and western medicine coexisting and that it provides literature and historical documents for conceiving and composing history of Chinese Stomatology.

Key words: medical history, dental diseases, Qing Royal Medical Science, Kunning Palace, The Publication of the Report of Palace Museum Inventory