Mario Chaves was a consultant in dental public health at the Kellogg Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Victoria Harrison was a consultant in dental public health at King’s College, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Bulman was born in 1933 in Twickenham. After education as a scholarship pupil at Christ’s Hospital, from 1953 to 1955, he was a National Serviceman in the Fighter Control Branch of the RAF. John then studied dentistry at the London Hospital, graduating in 1959. After a house post and with the e

Geoffrey Layton Slack – known as the ‘father of UK dental public health’ – played a leading role in establishing the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and the specialty of dental public health. He was born in Southport on 27 March 1912, the son of Charles Garrett Slack and Ger