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...final reply to those who criticize the new plan on the grounds of "too much education" is given by Leroy M. Miner, Dean of the School, in a recent article in the Dental School Alumni Bulletin...
...Corn is Green. Ethel Barrymore in a notable performance as pedagogical Pygmalion to a Welsh miner...
Last week nine college graduates marched into Harvard's dental school, listened to a few cheering words from Dean Leroy Miner, then went right next door into medical school. There they started courses in biochemistry, anatomy, physiology. None of them will look at a cavity for three years. So ended a one-man revolution which Dean Miner has plotted for 17 years-the merging at Harvard of dentistry with medicine...
...Dean Miner and President Conant of Harvard believe that the nation's biggest medical problem,* decaying teeth, could be overcome if students were set to research on the cause of dental disease. At present, they claim, most of the 70,000 practicing U.S. dentists are too busy filling, polishing and pulling, to give any heed to research. Nor do they know a great deal about the tooth as an organ of the body...
Occupying a total of five years, the new course will integrate medical and dental training and lead to both the M.D. and D.M.D. degrees. The opening, according to Dean Miner, "marks the beginning of an important experiment in American dental education. The student will receive the basic training in medicine required of all physicians without sacrificing the essential training in the restorative and reparative techniques of dentistry...