Minnie Evangeline Jordon

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Minnie Evangeline Jordon (June 22, 1865 - October 10, 1952) is an American dentist, who first specializes in child dentistry.

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Minnie Evangeline Jordon was born in Fulton County, Illinois, daughter of Eugene B. Jordon and Catherine Rebecca Calvert Jordon. He moved to California in 1887 and graduated from the Normal School of Los Angeles in 1891. He then graduated from the University of California dental program in 1898. When he was in dental school, he ran a oral health clinic at an orphanage in San Francisco.

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Careers

Jordon teaches in elementary school and works as a dental assistant when he practices dentistry at Berkeley, then opens his own dental practice in Los Angeles. Initially he had a common practice; in time, it limits its practice to pediatric patients, considered the first in the profession. As a "pioneer in pedodontics" he published his first book on the subject in 1925, entitled "Operative Dentistry for Children . In 1916 he gave a lecture to the Los Angeles County Nurse Association about "Dental Relationships with Child Development". He presented a paper, "The Relationship of Foods with Dental Growth", at the 1921 meeting of the California State Dental Association, recommending less sweets and more milk, coarse grains, eggs, and vegetables in children's food.

He was a professor of dentistry at the University of Southern California, and an officer at the Southern California Dental Association. He is the founder and first president of the American Dental Women's Federation and founder of the American Society of Dentistry for Children.

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Personal life

Minnie Evangeline Jordon died in Los Angeles in 1952, aged 87 years.

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References

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