Periodontal Homeostasis: From Vienna to Texas—A Century of Periodontal Research in the Spirit of Bernhard Gottlieb

摘要

Bernhard Gottlieb arrived in Dallas, TX, in 1941, after fleeing the Nazis in Vienna and after unsuccessful attempts to settle in Palestine, New York, and then Michigan [ ]. In Dallas, the once powerful head of Vienna's dental institute was fairly isolated, surrounded only by a few faithful admirers and without his famous students Balint Orban, Joseph-Peter Weinmann, and Harry Sicher, who by then had found a home in Chicago [ , ]. Alumni of Texas A&M College of Dentistry's predecessor, Baylor College of Dentistry, recognized Gottlieb's significance and bestowed him with a professorship in oral pathology. Gottlieb's new role in Dallas was to provide basic sciences education for dental students after the departure of the medical school faculty to Houston. However, Gottlieb's true legacy was his role in establishing oral biology as a new discipline at the interface between oral pathology and clinical sciences, most notably periodontics.