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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly...
...little consequence, for fine teeth contribute much to the comeliness of any human face, because the delightful human gesture called a smile usually uncovers the teeth. Next comes the process of filling or stopping the second teeth, which arrests that mysterious and perverse disintegration or decay of the bony part of the teeth which is called caries. I have already mentioned the great improvement in the materials and apparatus for filling which chemistry and physics have combined to provide. The extraction of teeth is a confession of professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them. In many cases...
...obvious that the profession of dentistry in its improved state requires an elaborate educational preparation, a preparation which must provide opportunity to acquire a large amount of varied knowledge, and a high degree of ocular and manual skill. Therefore a dental school is a proper part of a university...
Finally, the dental profession, like the medical profession, sees plainly before it a large field for research. For example, it will seek for the causes or sources of that great evil, caries. It desires to take part in learning what diet will best develop sound teeth in childhood, and maintain them in adult years. In short, reasonably content with the applications it has made during the past sixty years of acquired knowledge and skill, it aspires to win more knowledge through the efforts of its own investigators. The dental profession aspires to take part in the noble search...
...School at the Hotel Somerset last evening about 165 invited guests were present. Eugene H. Smith '74, D.M.D., Dean of the Dental School, presided and introduced President Lowell who briefly congratulated the alumni of the School on what they had done, saying that it showed great devotion on their part. The University as a whole has the deepest interest in the School and wishes it the greatest success in its new undertaking. The Alumni Chorus of the Dental School was present and rendered several selections throughout the evening. President Eliot was the principal speaker of the occasion; he gave...