Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PROSTHETIC STAFF ARTHUR TAYLOR ROWE, D.D.S. Chairman of Department, Chairman of Infirmary, and Professor of Dentistry EARL BANKS HOYT, D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry WILLIAM HOPKIXS CRAWFORD, D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry and Lecturer in Metallurgy GILBERT PERCIVAL SMITH. D.D.S. PAUL B. WIBERG, D.D.S. HARRY ALLEN YOUNG, D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Clinical Staff Clinical Staff ARTHUR O. COVEN, D.D.S. ARTHUR NELSON CROSS Clinical Staff Technician FRED HENRY KUVER, D.D.S. CARL SCHOOF. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Clinical Staff Twenty

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COLUMBIA OPERATIVE DENTISTRY One of the most important courses included in the curriculum of the dental school is the technical and clinical experience gained in the department of Operative Dentistry. During his three years ' work in this study, the student is taught to restore to proper normal function, those teeth which due to some form of pathological conditions have lost their natural usage in the oral cavity. At the head of this department we have Dr. Hartman, a former student of G. X. Black, one whose aim it is to instill a spirit of perfection into our operative procedures. Furthermore, an excellent study of root canal technique has been demonstrated by so serious-minded and capable a research worker as Dr. Buchbinder. During the entire operative course, the students arc first taught to master the various classes of cavity preparation on green extracted teeth. After a very comprehensive study in technic.. they are allowed to work on the clinic floor under the supervision of a staff of operative instructors. DENTAL REVIEW Nineteen

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COLUMBIA PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY AND CROWN-BRIDGE In this department, the student is enabled to demonstrate his mechanical and artistic ability. I ' nder the able instruction of Dr. Howe and his very competent staff, the student is given a sound basis for his further practice in the construction of dentures, crowns and bridgework. The study of denture prosthesis and bridgework, the latter, incidentally being one of the youngest recognized specialties into which the profession has been divided, is subject to constant alteration in ideas, not only regarding the indications of each, but also in the method of construction. Since the simpler application is more readily understood than the complex, that technique which will embody the funda- mentals with the fewest variables is most easily grasped. Thus, as is being taught here, once the simple method is mastered, it is but a step to the proper compre- hension of the complexities of the other techniques. The biological and physiological foundation having been obtained by the student in his other courses, this department directs these principles in the recon- struction of the mouth to normal function. Mechanics, is. therefore, not the sole consideration although the means towards an important end. First and foremost, the patients welfare ! Dr. Crawford has joined the Held of research workers and is occupied in the study of the properties and activities of metals. While so doing he has taken over the course in metallurgy which is given to the Sophomore students. DENTAL REVIEW Twenty-one