National Women’s History Month: The first woman dentist!
March is National Women’s History Month and while we are honoring females making “herstory,” we thought this would be the perfect time to tell you about our country’s first woman dentist—Lucy Hobbs Taylor. She became a dentist despite the establishment’s determination to keep her out of the profession. Want to work? Try teaching Born in 1833, Constable, New York, Lucy was the seventh of ten children to come along in her family. From a young age, Lucy always had strong interest in medicine and read everything she could on medical science. However, at the time, most educated women [...]