Emeline Roberts Jones

Emeline Roberts Jones (1836–1916) was the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States.

[1] She married the dentist Daniel Jones when she was a teenager (at age 18) but she did not become his assistant until 1855.

He thought the “frail and clumsy fingers” of women made them poor dentists.

[1][4] After her husband's death in 1864 she continued to practice dentistry by herself, in eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island.

[4] Emeline served on the Woman’s Advisory Council of the World’s Columbian Dental Congress in 1893.