 Tiradentes
It was around the same time that, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, “Tiradentes”, used to practice his profession learned from his godfather Sebastião Ferreira Leitão. In May, 1789, when arrested for taking part in the “Inconfidência Mineira”, Tiradentes said he knew a lot of people in Rio de Janeiro “due to his ability to place and pull teeth out”. His last confessor Father Raimundo Pennaforte, reports that Tiradentes “used to pull teeth effectively with the most subtle quickness and adorn the mouth with new teeth, made by himself, which looked like natural ones”, and it was a rare skill considering the primitive techniques of that period.
Among the objects confiscated in his house in Vila Rica, there were five white stone powder plates, two large glass flasks, two small thin bottles, one dental silk strainer and Dental tools. The tools are now part of the technical reserve of the National Historical Museum (RJ). There are two forceps, extraction tools and one spatula.
The first royal document to mention the word dentist was the Examination Plan of the Protomedicate Administrative Council, of May 23 rd , 1800, signed by the ruling prince D. João. The plan demanded that the candidate to dentist would get through an examination to evaluate the partial knowledge on anatomy, surgical and therapeutics methods.
In 1808, with the arrival of the Royal family in Brazil , a new period of development in the colony begins and puts in evidence the cultural, artistic and educational fields. On February 18 th of that year, the Surgeon School is founded at São José Hospital , in Bahia . On November 5 th , the Surgical Anatomical and Medical School of the Military and Navy Hospital was created and in 1832, it is changed into a Medical University .
In January, 1809, there is a new change in the system of concession of work permits. D. João suppresses the Protomedicate Royal Administrative Council and its duties become the Great Physicist and Surgeon-mor's duties, who had been appointed by the ruling prince in February of the previous year.
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