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Possibly the last group of Dental School students for some time to come have gained access to the medical profession through the side door of dentistry...
...addition, the report asked 3) that students entering the new infirmary be allowed their choice of single or multiple rooms; 4) that those able to work may receive Lamont reserve books; 5) that the Health Office give increased publicity to its dental and opthalmic services; 6) that although the Council had no objection to the inclusion of faculty members and employees in the health program, preference in the use of services be given to students...
Novocain, drills, and fillings being what they are, the Dental Clinic is never a very pleasant place to spend one's time. For the student who is driven there by a toothache or some other dental crisis, however, the Clinic can become downright infuriating. For no matter how painful his ailment, he is usually told to come back in two or three weeks when the doctors will be able to give him an appointment...
...course the student does not just suffer for this whole period. He either pulls the tooth out himself (thereby perhaps landing in the Infirmary instead of the Dental Clinic), or goes to one of the local private dentists whom the Clinic obligingly recommends. Here he pays considerably more than the specially-reduced $3 fee to which he is entitled at the Clinic...
...least five years away, and meanwhile the student with a toothache is still down in the mouth, as it were. A steady stream of people who want their teeth cleaned or checked prevent him from getting an appointment when he needs one. As a provisional solution, the Dental Clinic might leave some time open each day for only the more serious cases, and if necessary, might refer to outside dentists some of the students with routine problems. This solution would not be so satisfactory as universal false teeth, but it might prevent some unnecessary gnashing and gnawing in the local...