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Harvard new has two dental schools, the regular Dental School and the new School of Dental Medicine, established last Spring and destined to replace its older brother as soon as the present second-year class graduates...
...sense, the new school will be training super-dentists, in that it is preparing men for certain specialized opportunities in the dental field which can now only be filled after a long and hopelessly clumsy program of medical and dental study. Among those listed b Thoma in a recent interview are plastic surgery, oral surgery, teaching, and research...
...must be emphasized," Thoma pointed out, "that the new school is not intended to be a pattern for the educational methods of American dental schools as a whole, but rather to give men training for individual careers of he sort mentioned...
Thoma admitted, however, that the new program will probably lead to a certain revision of the curriculum of many dental schools, notably the cutting down in number of secondary departments into which the instruction is pigeon-holed...
Graduates as well as undergraduates have been organized. The Dental School Committee, composed of fourth-year dental students, last year overhauled an estimated 1800 sets of teeth belonging to children whose parents were either too ill-informed or poverty-stricken to send them to a dentist. A similar function was performed by the Medical School Committee, which has established a program of physical exams in the settlement houses and will set up a clinic in Dorcester House this year...