Personal development and professional path of the outstanding domestic odontologist, Professor G.I. Vilga

The article presents for the first time a complete scientific biography of Gilarii-Zdislav Ivanovich Vilga, created on the basis of archival and literary sources of the early twentieth century. G.I. Vilga was a recognized founder of Russian forensic dentistry and one of the founders of Russian maxillofacial surgery. However, his services to domestic dentistry were not limited to this. Signs of the institutionalization of dentistry in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries were the reform of education (private dental schools, the first departments of odontology at universities), the emergence of specialized societies, congresses and the press. Professor G.I. Vilga was one of the first private assistant professors of odontology at Moscow University, the founder of the Moscow dental school and its head, chairman of the Moscow Odontological Society and editor of its printed organ, board chairman of the Russian Dental Union and two All-Russian Dental Congresses. All this gives us the right to consider him one of the founders of domestic dentistry.