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...doctors and dentists assembled to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, one of the most promising aspects of the school's proud plans for the future was a reflection of its past. Contemporary dentistry's most urgent need, said Baltimore Dean John J. Salley, is to reinforce its intimate partnership with the science of medicine...
Back in 1840, when four Baltimore physicians got a state charter for the world's first dental college, dentistry was still largely concerned with replacement of defective or missing teeth. One of its most impressive achievements was the ill-fitting sets of artificial teeth that had been carved from hippopotamus bone and mounted in gold by Boston-born John Greenwood more than 40 years before for George Washington...
...specialized branch of medicine, requiring knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology. For their school, which has long since become part of the University of Maryland, they decided on the revolutionary step of setting up educational standards similar to those already existing for medical training: either two years in the dental college or one year of dental training after a year in medical school...
...third major proposal is to permit the Federal Government to contribute to the costs of medical and dental care for needy children in states that are ready to share the expense. Federal aid also would be increased for children who are crippled, mentally retarded, or disabled. Health clinics for migratory workers and their children would be extended, as would community vaccination services. Such increased aid to children would cost $125 million the first year, $320 million the next...
Other items include scholarships for medical and dental students "who would otherwise not be able to enter or complete such training," grants to help cover the operating costs of medical and dental schools and improve their teaching, funds to modernize existing hospitals, loans to build and equip group-practice clinics, and new federal controls over the production and distribution of habit-forming drugs...