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...examination is only part of a dental examination. A leaflet recently released by the Hygiene Department suggests examination by a dentist at least once a year as an effective means of detecting decay...
Conant sent dental students to the Medical School for basic science in struction because 1) it is better there than it was at the old Dental School and 2) it makes the dentist aware that he is dealing with a part of medicine and of the human body, not a unit in itself. Furthermore, the new School of Dental Medicine was to emphasize research as a means to preventive dentistry. Theory was to become of much more importance in the training of a practicing dentist...
...furor burst because Conant turned a 73-year-old trend into a revolution and left some 2000 dentists "without heritage." He made the Dental School a satellite of the Medical School, which caused such a storm of protest across the country that the new ste-up wasn't recognized by any dental association for seven years. And to cap it all, at a time when only 34 per cent of the American people are receiving adequate dental care, Conant cut Harvard's yearly dentist output from...
...them despite all odds. The controversy, in fact, which arose over the 1940-41 changes over, dates back to Eliot's report of 1873-74. He mentioned at that early date "a division of opinion in the dental profession as to the expedience of having a separate degree for dentists, some persons maintaining that every dentist should be, like an oculist or acurist, a doctor of medicine...
...There are 97,529 dentists in the U.S., or one for every 1,667 persons, the American Dental Association reported. Biggest trouble: the supply does not fill the right cavities. There is only one dentist for every 3,076 residents in the Southeast, one for every 2,962 in the Southwest, whereas New York...