Post 7: An expert on my field

Lucy Beaman Hobbs, the world´s first female odontology graduate. 

She graduating as a teacher at the age of 16, she practiced for ten years as a school teacher. She applied for admission as a medical student. However, her enrollment was denied because she was a woman. The dean of the institution that she was applying to, seeing her passion she showed for medicine, advised her to train in the field of dentistry. 

In those days. before entering a school, applcants has to find a professional to initiate them as assistants, and after an arduous search, Dr. Samuel Wardle initiated her into the practice of dentristry. 

Even without her proffesional degree, she set up her first practice in 1862. It brought her fame and certain reputation for the treatment and service that she provied. 

In 1865, the Dental Society amended its blylaws to admit women. Lucy was admited to a college and began her training. Excelling in all disciplines and areas of dentistry, she earned the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery on February 21, 1866, becoming the firts woman dentist to be licensed. 

I admire her because she was a woman who did not give up and fought to get what she wanted, even when society at the time was not in her favor.

She was able to revolutionize her era, and even todey, the American Association of Women Dentistry annually awards the "Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award" to the woman who has made the greatest contribution to the advancement, improvement and enrichment of dentistry and in the civic, cultural and humanitarian fields. Recognizing that she has made a grat difference in society.