Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»273810.25742/NRIPH.2024.01.023Научная статьяReorganization of pre-revolutionary dentistry in the first years of Soviet power: plans and resultsMaksimovEgor S.79778220515@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-8578N. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthFSBEI HE «ROSUNIMED» OF MOH OF RUSSIA1603202428114715025042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>In August 1918, the Dental Sub-Section of the People's Commissariat of Health set itself the main goal of providing the general public with access to highly qualified, free and organized dental care. The reform of dentistry was implemented in the conditions of the post-revolutionary crisis, lack of funding and shortage of qualified specialists, with a negative attitude of some dentists to the changes. To solve the problem of shortage of equipment, materials, and medicines, it was decided to nationalize private dental offices and to engage the remaining doctors in labor conscription, but not all could withstand these difficulties. Nevertheless, a network of state dental outpatient clinics was established in the RSFSR, which rapidly deteriorated after the transition to a new economic policy. The creation of a sustainable system of free public dental care required a new time and other economic conditions.</p>history of medicinedentistrydental subsectionP.G.Daugedentistryистория медицинызубоврачеваниезубоврачебная подсекцияП.Г. Даугестоматология1.Dauge PG. Social bases of Soviet stomatology. Moscow: State Medical Publishing House; 1933 (in Russian).2.3.Verlotsky AE. On training of stomatologists and requalification of dentists. Odontology and dentistry. [Odontologiya i stomatologiya]. 1927;(5):14—20 (in Russian).4.5.Pashkov KA. History of stomatology: from the origins to the XX century. Moscow: Printing House «Magistral»; 2018 (in Russian).6.7.Resolution of the People's Commissariat of Health. On the labor obligation of medical personnel. Collection of decrees and orders of the government for 1917—1918. Moscow: Management of Affairs of the USSR Council of People's Commissariat of Health; 1942 (in Russian).8.9.Yanushevich OO, Pashkov KA, Maksimov ES. Formation of Soviet dentistry: 1918—1921. Stomatology. [Stomatologiya]. 2023;102(2):70-76 (in Russian).10.11.Dauge PG. Results and prospects in the field of State Dental Medicine. Odontology and Dentistry. [Odontologiya i stomatologiya].1924;(3):61—73 (in Russian).12.13.Dauge PG. The Great October and Soviet dentistry. Odontology and Dentistry. [Odontologiya i stomatologiya]. 1927;(5):5—9 (in Russian).