Russell C. Wheeler
Russell C. Wheeler, a 1919 graduate of the Washington University School of Dentistry, practiced dentistry in St. Louis for over fifty years and was a noted pioneer in the field of restorative dentistry. He was a member of the faculty of his alma mater from 1922 to 1937 and again from 1945 to 1951, rising to the rank of associate professor of Oral Anatomy. From 1937 to 1944 Wheeler served as associate professor and chairman of the department of Dental Anatomy at the St. Louis University School of Dentistry.
Wheeler served as president of the St. Louis Society of Dental Science in 1937 and as president of the St. Louis Dental Society in 1946. Most notably, Wheeler authored two dental textbooks, Atlas of Tooth Form (1939) and Dental Anatomy and Physiology (1940), which were at the time they were published required or recommended texts in almost every dental school in the United States and Canada. The 8th edition of the latter text, now known as Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology and Occlusion, was published in 2003.