Baylor University College of Dentistry - Baylor Burr Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Baylor’s expansion during the past decade has followed the en- larging spectrum of dental education to include: increased undergraduate enrollment cooperation with programs of public health and preventive dentistry training in new techniques and procedures, enlargement of physical facilities education of auxiliary personnel enlargement of graduate education and research new and better use of visual methods in teaching new instruments and methodology cooperative teaching between the college and other institutions dedicated to the healing arts increased awareness and cooperation in providing dental care for handicapped and underprivileged children. continuing education for the profession increased interest and support by the profession and the alumni increased emphasis on the religious concepts as a part of professional training.

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Dental education in its relatively short history has evolved through many changes. However, the most rapid and dramatic expansion of the basic concepts of dental training have occurred in the past decade. Trends initiated prior to that time have been greatly magnified into a blending of the basic with the expanding patterns of modern science. With the new focus on scientific discovery and the emphasis on edu- cation, the profession, the alumnus, the educator, and the student have be- come part of the ever-enlarging spectrum of dental education. The dental school has been the focal point of the profession’s rapidly increasing knowledge. The teacher-scientist, with laboratory and classroom, occupied a strategic position in which to exp lore and evaluate new ideas and disseminate changing knowledge. With increased graduate training, the spectrum has been extended into other areas of the basic sciences and the healing arts to produce an overlapping pattern of patient care and a broadened awareness of dental health by the public. With the increased awareness has come a broadened responsibility by the profession for care of the underprivileged. In the enlarging spectrum of dental education no area is static. The constantly overlapping, blending, and changing of ideas- is producing a health concept in dentistry not envisioned in the past.

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(Right) The dental hygiene student is trained to take X-rays, perform prophylaxes, and give fluoride treatments. Educating the patient in oral hygiene is also one of the hygienist’s important duties. (Below) A new hi-speed wing provides modern clinical facilities for students. (Left) Before graduation, Senior students have the op- portunity to practice in a modern office environment us- ing the newest instruments and procedures.