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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Annette Alafaci updated 2019-12-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002512b.htm person Reading Richard Fairfax AACR2 Dental scientist Richard Reading taught dentistry at the University of Sydney from 1921 to 1934 and was elected the Dental School's first Dean.

The establishment of the Dental School and its later development as a Faculty owe much to the endeavours and the ability of Richard Fairfax Reading. Fairfax Reading, who held qualifications in medicine and dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom, commenced practice as a dentist in Sydney in 1889 and, together with other dental colleagues and with Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart, had worked to create a dental school within The University of Sydney. He became the first part-time Director of Dental Studies and subsequently full-time Director and then Professor of Dentistry. He was Dean of the Faculty from 1921 until his retirement in 1934. Fairfax Reading raised the standards of dentistry as a profession in New South Wales and firmly established dental undergraduate training in the University.

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