Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acknowledge with real gratitude your recent editorial "Dentists Take Their Medicine." I have read and written a good deal about the Harvard School of Dental Medicine during the past two years. A little of this material has been good; most of it has been distinctly, mediocre. Consequently, I congratulate the writer of this editorial as to a refreshing case of expression, a courageous use of adjectives, and a willingness to come to a conclusion, which, after all, is a purpose of editorial writing...
...ambidextrous doctor-dentists goes into training this fall. they will emerge five years hence with a sheepskin in each hand, ready to drill a tooth or deliver a baby or to clean Junior's teeth and prescribe for his measles in one visit. The new Harvard School of Dental Medicine hopes that its versatile alumni will be biologically-minded dentists, better equipped to battle an unfamiliar tooth than the men whose training emphasized the theory and use of the drill. whether this can be accomplished by simply adding the ready-made Medical school curriculum to that of the Dental School...
...dental journals have argued that the new program will slight basic dental training for medicine, to which the school replies that the full equivalent of the old Dental School is included. It is less able, however, to answer the charge that much of the medical training is irrelevant. A dentist has little use for psychiatry and less for obstetrics. Nevertheless, the near-equivalent of medical school, containing all but the electives of the fourth year, is fed to the potential super-dentists whether it applies or not. Some courses, such as obstetrics, have been slightly shortened, but the net result...
...Almost one-fourth of the men inducted into the Army need immediate dental care...
...Wake went a dental plate (upper), travel clock, Dr. Scholl's foot powder, silver necklace clasp, wool coat...