List of first female dentists by country explained

This is a list of the first qualified female dentist to practice in each country, where that is known.

Africa

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Burkina Faso	Véronique Kyelem^[1]	1972	1987
Ghana	Hilda Ayensu^[2]
Kenya	Muthoni Gitata^[3]
Liberia	Rachael Hill Townsend^[4]
Namibia	Sarti Mwatilifange^[5] and another woman		1994
Nigeria	Simi Johnson^[6] and Grace Guobadia^[7]	1957
South Africa	Jane Nathan^[8] ^[9] ^[10]	1917
Sudan	Nashina Makos^[11]	c. 1963

Americas

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
	Cidanelia R. González de Carrillo^[12] ^[13] ^[14]		1896
	Maria H. Oropeza^[15]	1914
	Isabella Von Sydow^[16]	1906	1906
	Emma Gaudreau Casgrain		1898
	Amelia Venegas^[17] ^[18]	1884
Colombia	Hortensia Lince^[19]		1890
Costa Rica	Pilar Celina Duval^[20]
Cuba	Serafina Daumy y Martínez^[21]	1879
Dominican Republic	Victoria Sofía Oliva Montás^[22]	1917
Ecuador	Delfina Luis Rodríguez		1916
El Salvador	Bertha Orbelina González^[23]	1938
Guatemala	Carlota Estévez Arrutia	1924
Haiti	Marcelle Bellande (née Hakime)^[24] ^[25]
Honduras	Rosa Galo de Castillo^[26]	1948
Mexico	Margarita Chorné y Salazar^[27]	1896
Panama	Aida Illueca Avilés^[28]
Peru	Ana Seminario de Mac Sorley^[29] ^[30]
Saint Lucia	Azmina Long^[31]	1980
Suriname	Tine Putscher^[32]
United States	Emeline Roberts Jones^[33]		1855
Uruguay	Iride Casullo de Peluffo^[34] ^[35]	1897
	Rosario Cotton	1909

Asia

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
Bahrain	Zakia Salman^[36] ^[37]	1972	1984
China	Zhang Qiongxian^[38]	1936
	Vimla Sood^[39]	1944
	Badri Teymourtash^[40]
Iraq	Madiha Saleh Zaki^[41]	c. 1950s
Japan	Kou Takahashi^[42]	1897
Jordan	Aida Jamal Al-Alami^[43] ^[44]
	Geum-bong Choi^[45] ^[46]
Kuwait	Hala Al-Zawawi^[47]
Lebanon	Nihad Kfoury^[48] ^[49]	1973
	Fatima Jinnah^[50]	1923
	Nieva Basa Eraña-Velasquez^[51]
Saudi Arabia	Fatima Al Nasrallah^[52]
	Rosaline Karthigesu^[53]		1947
	Amira Sabaa El Layl^[54]
	Ayehsa Sultan Al Suwaidi^[55]
	Abeer Abdel Rahman Ahmed Al-Faqih^[56]

Europe

Country	Dentist	Year of graduation	Year of starting practice
	Martha Wolf^[57]	1912
Bulgaria	Yurdanka Kaldaramova-Senkova^[58]	1901
Cyprus	Rebecca Savvidou^[59]
Czech Republic	Štěpánka Líčková^[60] (country then known as Bohemia)	1910
	Nicoline Møller^[61]	1888	1888
Estonia	Josephine Serre^[62]	1814
	Hedvig Eleonora Ståhlberg^[63] ^[64]	1887	1887
	Madeleine-Françoise Calais^[65]	1740	1740
	Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius^[66]	1869	1869
Greece	Eliza Karakatsani^[67]		1895
Hungary	Gizella Barát^[68]		1910
Iceland	Thyra Loftsson (née Lange)^[69] ^[70]	1925
Italy	Elena Venturi^[71]
Latvia	Late Veibele^[72]	1901
Luxembourg	Marcelle Dauphin^[73] ^[74]	1922	1923
	Carmen Joslin (née Attard)^[75] ^[76]	1960
	Jevrosima Berezina Kaluđerović^[77]	1904
	Virginie Waltjen-Stadelmann^[78] ^[79]	1885	1885
	Petra Lie^[80]	1872	1872
Poland	Józefa Serre^[81] ^[82]	1813
Romania	^[83]
	Maria Nazon^[84] ^[85]		1829
Serbia	Milica Mihajlović^[86]
Slovenia	Pavla Marija Kocjančič^[87]		c. 1926
	Polonia Sanz y Ferrer^[88] ^[89]		1849
	Amalia Assur^[90] ^[91]		1852
		1887
Turkey	Ayşe Şadiye and Azra Hatice^[92] ^[93]	1926
United Kingdom	Lilian Lindsay^[94]	1895	1895

Oceania

Country	Physician	Year graduated medical school	Year began practice
	Annie Praed Margaret "Madge" Estelle Maltby-Robinson (née Barnes)^[95] Frances Dorothy Gray^[96]	1906-1907
	Jiko Yasa (née Luveni)^[97] ^[98]	1967	1967
	Margaret Caro^[99]	1881
Vanuatu	Toumelu Kalsakau^[100]

See also

• List of first female pharmacists by country
• List of first female physicians by country
• Women in dentistry
• Women in medicine

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