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

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COLUMBIA DENTAL HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY T ENTAL Histology and Embryology, one of the most important dental subjects, is taught to students of the first year. Its effect upon the out- look of the student as he approaches his clinical work is of the utmost im- portance. Here, Dentists of the future are equipped with sound learning, and prac- tical knowledge, so that they may capably fill their positions in health science and in preventive dentistry. By means of a series of lantern slides, lectures and microscopic studies, the student becomes acquainted with the histological structures and the embryology of the teeth. Each student is equipped with a series of stained histological preparations. He is required to carefully study these and make topographical drawings of the structures seen under the microscope. In this way the student receives a thorough knowledge of the structural elements of the tissues upon which he will operate, plus the knowl- edge that he is working upon vital tissues which are an integral part of the human organism. CHARLES F. BODECKER, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Professor of Dentistry EDMUND APPLEBAUM, D.D.S. Instructor JOSEPH BERKE, D.D.S. Instructor — - DENTAL REVIEW Eighteen

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— — ' COLUMBIA DENTAL ETHICS AND JURISPRUDENCE ALFRED OWRE, D.M.D., A.B., M.D., CM., Sc.D. Dean and Professor of Dentistry MARTIN C. TRACY, D.M.D. Assistant Professor of Dentistry HENRY W. GILLETT, D.M.D. Professor of Dentistry T ENTAL Ethics and Jurisprudence, a course for fourth year students, is conducted jointly by Dean Owre, Dr. Martin Tracy and Dr. William Gillett. The course is given as a series of conferences at which, the History of Dentistry, its Practice and Ethics are discussed. It is the purpose of this course to give the students themselves the oppor- tunity of expounding their ideas concerning the various ethical phases of den- tistry.- Following the delivery of a paper by a student it is fully discussed by the other members of the class and if found suitable it is recommended for publication in one of the many dental magazines. The integration of Dentistry into Medicine as a specialty received a great amount of stress in many of the papers. Dr. Owre, the exponent of this great movement, informs the students of its progress and reception, both pro and con, by some of the leaders of both the medical and dental professions. The class is held for a complete year with meetings once weekly. DENTAL REVIEW Seventeen

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COLUMBIA ORAL ANATOMY f RAL Anatomy is the first course with which students of the Freshman year come into contact. Under the expert tutelage of the dexterous Dr. Moses Diamond and his assistants, the freshman learns to know the name and function of each ridge, each facet, and each curve in every tooth in the mouth. In short order, he becomes acquainted with the words digital dexterity, and is called upon to demonstrate his own aptness for carving, to measurement, exact duplicates of ideal teeth. This course consists of a series of lectures in the first and second trimesters during which the student is made acquainted with the developmental anatomy and relationship of the teeth. In the third trimester of the same year, and the first of the following year, each student is required to carve a full set of teeth from wax blocks. Several teeth are also carved from a bone-like material. Finally, the wax teeth are set up in a wax mandible and maxilla in perfect occlusion. MOSES DIAMOND, D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry M. RUSSELL STEIN, D.D.S. ARMAND OPPENHEIMER, D.D.S. Instructor — pp D ENTAL KEVIEW Nineteen