List of first women dentists by country

This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.

Asia and Oceania

Country	Name	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
New Zealand	Margaret Caro[1]	1881
Australia	Annie Praed[2]	1906
Australia	Margaret (Madge) Estelle Barnes (later Maltby-Robinson)[3]	1906
Australia	Frances Dorothy Gray[4]	1907
India	Vimla Sood[5]	1944
Sri Lanka	Rosaline Karthigesu[6]		1947
Iran	Badri Teymourtash[7]
Pakistan	Fatima Jinnah[8]	1923
Philippines	Nieva Basa Eraña-Velasquez[9]
UAE	Ayehsa Sultan Al Suwaidi[10]

Europe

Country	Name	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Sweden	Amalia Assur[11] [12]		1852
UK	Lilian Lindsay[13]	1895	1895
Denmark	Nicoline Møller[14]		1888
Germany	Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius[15]	1869
Netherlands	Henriette van Loenen-de Bordes/ Virginie Waltjen	1888	1889
Spain	? Josefina Landete Aragó		1913
Norway	Sarah Selvik[16]
France	? Mademoiselle Duval[17]

Americas

Country	Name	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
USA	Emeline Roberts Jones[18]		1855
Canada	Emma Gaudreau Casgrain[18]		1898
Mexico	Margarita Chorné y Salazar [18][19]
Argentina	? Sara Justo[20]
Brazil	? Carmen Cristina Carvalho Falcon [18]		1986
Chile	Paulina Starr[21]	1884

See also

• List of first female pharmacists by country
• List of first female physicians by country
• Women in dentistry
• Women in medicine

References

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