The art of dental surgery has been one of the most innovative historical developments for the understanding and study of the human being, since ancient times multiple civilizations contributed great knowledge about it for its understanding, as they sought to maintain health or recover it.

Since ancient times they performed hemorrhage control, wound management, abscess drainage, dislocations, fractures, extraction of dental organs, and extirpation of tumors, collecting and describing anatomical, clinical, pathological data and surgical techniques.

Undoubtedly, they were also busy documenting their findings and medical advances, with the Edwin Smith papyrus and George Ebers being the first treatises, which recorded surgical procedures and medicines based on plants and natural remedies respectively.