Badri Teymourtash

Iranian dentist

Badri Teymourtash is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.

The record lists Badri Teymourtash as Iranian dentist.

Badri Teymourtash was born at Mashhad in 1911. Her recorded nationality is Iran.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.

Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.

That the work was done from Iran matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.

Badri Teymourtash died in 1995, aged 84. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.

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