Hediyeh Toutouni
1 
, Shirin Taraz Jamshidi
2 , Ali Emadzadeh
3* 1 Community Oral Health Department, Mashhad Dental School, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
3 Department of Internal Medicine, MMS.C, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
Doctor Badri Teymourtash (1908‒1995) was among the first Iranian lady dentists. She was one of the founders of Mashhad Dental School and one of the pioneers of modern dentistry in Iran. This paper takes a glance at the story of the life of this academic woman with its ebbs and flows.