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

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COLUMBIA SURGERY STAFF HENRY SAGE DUNNING, D.D.S., ADOLPH BERGER, D.D.S. M.D., B.S., F.A.C.S. William Carr Professor of Surgery Chairman of Department and Pro- fessor of Dentistry FRANCIS STEPHEN McCAFFREY, B.S., D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry DOUGLAS BURNETT PARKER, M.D.. D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry SAMUEL BIRENBACH, D.D.S., MORRIS A. ZIMMER, D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry DENTAL MVIEW Twenty-two

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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

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§ COLUMBIA ORAL SURGERY The Oral Surgery clinic- is probably the most adequately equipped school clinic in the city. Four rooms constitute the working basis of this department. In the first room, or the local anaesthesia room, an oral hygienist is busily occupied preparing fresh novoeaine solutions for each injection. The next room is the treat- ment room where all post-operative procedures are carried on throughout the clinic day. In the extraction room the student by observation and practical application of the principles of exodontia becomes proficient in minor oral surgery. In the general anesthesia room, a competent registered nurse is maintained to administer gas and the other general anesthetics. The course in Oral Surgery is continued over a period of two years so that constant, repetition and strict attention to detail stamp an impression on the stu- dent mind that is indelible. In the Junior year Dr. Parker introduces the field of general surgery on which the scope of the specialty is outlined -with sufficient funda- mentals to permit the student to begin clinical work. The student is then assigned for six weeks each year in the Surgery clinic. In the Senior year there are two lectures weekly, one by Dr. H. S. Dunning and one by Dr. A. Berger. with clinical demonstrations. DENTAL REVIEW Twenty-three