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. 2024 Mar;236(6):483-486.
doi: 10.1038/s41415-024-7174-5. Epub 2024 Mar 22.

Franz Alfred (1880-1962) and Georg Frederich (1921-2010) Kantorowicz

Stanley Gelbier  1
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Franz Alfred (1880-1962) and Georg Frederich (1921-2010) Kantorowicz

Stanley Gelbier. Br Dent J. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

George Kantorowicz was a senior lecturer/consultant in conservative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital who provided ground-breaking treatment for cleft palate children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. His father, Alfred, was a Jewish professor, dean at Bonn Dental School and a world-famous advocate of mobile dental surgeries and prevention for children's dental health, until the Nazis put him in a concentration camp. After important interventions, he became director of Istanbul Dental Institute.

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  • Errant Nobel Prize.
    Asquith J. Asquith J. Br Dent J. 2024 May;236(9):669. doi: 10.1038/s41415-024-7408-6. Epub 2024 May 10. Br Dent J. 2024. PMID: 38730142 No abstract available.

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