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Dentist Maurice E. Peters of Boston struck the convention keynote when he cried: "We seem to have developed to the stage where the exodontist takes them out and the prosthodontist puts them back, not only decoratively, but quite efficiently and expensively. But is that dentistry? . . . Why should people go to dentists for dental care and end up with artificial teeth...
Dentists smiled at such punning, wished it would stop. As he was about to turn over A. D. A.'s presidency to Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson ('"Roy") Miner of Boston last week, Dr. George Ben Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report...
Some dental schools require only a high school diploma as entrance requirements; most demand one year of college work; very few a college degree. The dental student, realizing the profits a specialist earns, looks to becoming a dental hygienist, radiographer or exodontist. With perseverance, time and money he may become a dentist with a B. S. degree, M. S., or even D. D. S. But the run of the profession know little beyond immediate teeth conditions and their alleviation. In Chicago last week 12,000 dentists attending the 62nd annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society were reminded...
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