The Department of General Dental Preclinical Practice started its operation on November 1, 2011, after the existing infrastructure of the Faculty of Dentistry Education Centre allowed the creation of an independent institute from the Faculty’s Propaedeutics Unit.<\/p>\n
Odontotechnology education had already been going on at the Faculty of Medicine since 1900, under the leadership of Lajos Hattyassy. At that time, this was only possible on the first floor of the Faculty of Medicine’s Economic Office.<\/p>\n
From 1909, however, the education of dental technology could take place in an 18-seated laboratory in the basement of the Stomatology Clinic founded by J\u00f3zsef \u00c1rk\u00f6vy.<\/p>\n
Hattyasy was replaced by two highly experienced practitioners, Henrik Salamon and, from the 1920-s, D\u00e9nes M\u00e1th\u00e9, whose literary work is internationally outstanding.<\/p>\n
When the independent dental education started in 1952, the new Practice Laboratory was established by Imre F\u00f6ldv\u00e1ri in the designated rooms of the present Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research.<\/p>\n
The quality of education was greatly enhanced by the establishment of a phantom-head laboratory initially for 30 students and later extended for 70 students. Here, in addition to dentist instructors, dental technicians also took part in the education. Here, in addition to teaching Dental Materials and Metallurgy and Odontotechnology, the teaching of Prosthodontics and Conservative Dental Prosthodontics was started, as a result of which students learned the basic steps by simulating them on phantom heads.<\/p>\n
Gy\u00f6rgy Husz\u00e1r took over from F\u00f6ldv\u00e1ri as head of the Teaching Laboratory, which has since been attached to the Clinic of Prosthodontics and reduced in size. However, this did not lower the quality of teaching.<\/p>\n
The next head, Gy\u00f6rgy G\u00f6tz, equipped the Teaching Laboratory, as the Prosthodontic Department of the Clinic of Prosthodontics, in the 1990s with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, which were then state-of-the-art in Europe.<\/p>\n
After Gy\u00f6rgy G\u00f6tz, P\u00e1l T\u00f3th and then Andr\u00e1s K\u00f3bor headed the Department as lecturers of Material Science, but from the 2000s the teaching of Dental Material Science and Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics separated, so P\u00e9ter Kivovics was appointed to head the teaching of Odontotechnology alongside Andr\u00e1s K\u00f3bor.<\/p>\n
In 2007, the faculty\u2019s new Education Centre was inaugurated, where the Teaching Laboratory received new, world-class teaching facilities. It now offers high quality teaching in Odontotechnology and Materials Science, as well as in Prosthodontics, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics.<\/p>\n
By 2011, the need for the establishment of a consolidated Department of Prosthodontics was expressed. In 2011, Krisztina M\u00e1rton was entrusted with the coordination of its establishment by the Dean P\u00e1l Fej\u00e9rdy. Today, the Department is the only educational institution of its kind in Hungary.<\/p>\n
Recently, in 2025, after its refurbishment a completely new world class educational facility has been established with 118 phantom head – dental unit workstations, in 3 teaching halls. 13 microscopic stations are also available for to students to study high precision interventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our previous leaders:<\/p>\n
Lab:<\/p>\n
– Lajos Hattyasi 1900-1919.<\/p>\n
– Henrik Salamon 1919-1922.<\/p>\n
– M\u00e1th\u00e9 D\u00e9nes 1922-1945.<\/p>\n
– Imre F\u00f6ldv\u00e1ri 1945-1968.<\/p>\n
– Gy\u00f6rgy Husz\u00e1r 1968-1977.<\/p>\n
– Gy\u00f6rgy G\u00f6tz 1977-2001.<\/p>\n
– P\u00e1l T\u00f3th 2001.<\/p>\n
– P\u00e9ter Kivovics and Andr\u00e1s K\u00f3bor 2001-2011.<\/p>\n
Department:<\/p>\n
– Krisztina M\u00e1rton 2011-<\/p>\n
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