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...girls in Cleveland, all but nine arrived with serious dental troubles. Milk was so strange to some that they could not get used to it, insisted on drinking soda pop with their meals, even breakfast. One girl, though, drank three glasses of milk at every meal. Another, who had never tasted broccoli, liked it so much when she tried it that she returned for second and third helpings every time it was on the menu. To still another, mashed potatoes was such a delightful new experience that now she could not get enough of it. Some had never...
...foster rapport with patients, and also because so many dental ills are at least partly psychogenic the school will be teaching its students some psychology and psychiatry...
That well-laid foundation remains in the curricula of most dental colleges. But over the years, while the medical aspects of mouth care have come to include whole new sciences such as microbiology, radiology and histology, dentistry itself has developed from a crude craft into a highly respected and technical profession...
Modern dentistry has come to demand so many and varied skills that the average dentist has little time to stay abreast of medical science after his first years in dental school. Traditionally, explains Dean Salley, "the student spends his first two years learning the basic sciences, such as anatomy and physiology. Only in his third and fourth years does he begin to meet and treat patients and apply those basic sciences." What is needed, says the dean, is better continuity...
...Baltimore school's huge main clinic, with its array of 64 dental chairs, advanced students now treat hundreds' of patients (at nominal fees) every day under the guidance of their teachers. When the new $9,000,000 building is completed in 1968, says Dr. Salley, "we plan to have freshmen deal with patients, learn to apply their basic knowledge before the end of their first year. They will continue to have basic science courses through all four years, so that clinic and classroom will always be meshed together...