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

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COLUMBIA OPERATIVE DENTISTRY VPERATIVE dentistry, it has been contended by many practitioners, con- stitutes more than half of practical dentistry. Realizing this future demand, the operative department, supervised by Professor Leroy L. Hartman, has outlined as thorough a student training as can be found in any similar department of any dental school. Primarily, a course in technic is prescribed. Proper cavity construction, proper instrumentation and sharp line angles and point angles are indelibly impressed upon the minds of the students. This work, done on extracted teeth imbedded in compound blocks, appears as neat and clearly cut as many photos seen in our dental magazines. Supplementing this technic a technical and biological treatise on root canal therapy is given by our specialist Dr. M. Buchbinder. Being thus fully equipped with the necessary technical knowledge the students are permitted to do work upon patients in our well equipped infirmary. The clinic floor is divided into sections so that the operators may secure the acme of instruction from instructors who specialize in the many branches of operative procedure. D ENTAL KEVIEW Twenty-one

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COLUMMA™ : OPERATIVE DENTISTRY STAFF LEROY L. HARTMAN, D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry GEORGE F. LINDIG, D.D.S. MAURICE BUCHBINDER, D.D.S. Instructor Asst. Prof, of Dentistry IRVIN L. HUNT, D.D.S. Instructor JAMES M. DUNNING, A.B., D.D.S. MILTON R. MILLER, B.S., D.D.S. Instructor Instructor AMERIC ANGELUS, B.S., D.D.S. WILLIAM B. MILLER, B.S., D.D.S. Instructor Staff DENTAL REVIEW Twenty

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COLUMBIA ORAL DIAGNOSIS I T is now recognized that many physical ills are due to dental and periodontial disease and that many of these ills manifest their first symptoms in the mouth. The dentist is now held responsible for recognizing these conditions and dealing adequately with them. Therefore, modern dentistry is acknowl- edging the value and the need for proper diagnosis. Oral diagnosis signifies a thorough understanding of the normal and abnormal conditions of the mouth. This, of course, implies an understanding of abnormal systemic conditions -which may be the cause of pathological changes in or about the mouth. It is the endeavor of the members of the staff of this department to impress upon students the necessity for correct diagnosis as a most important feature of modern oral health science. With their basic training of the normal and abnormal pathology fresh in their minds, students are here given the oppor- tunity of applying this knowledge to practical cases. Diagnosis ever will play a part important in the practice of dentistry for no treatment will be efficacious ■without a correct and scientific diagnosis. Lectures in the course are conducted by Dr. J. Leonard after which the students are assigned to the diagnosis department headed by Dr. D. Ziskin. Here each student is given practical experience in diagnosing oral conditions and the finding and charting of cavities. HAROLD J. LEONARD, A.B., D.D.S. DANIEL E. ZISKIN, D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry Assistant Professor of Dentistry — Chairman HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY, D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry LEWIS R. STOWE, D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry JOSEPH O. FOURNIER, D.D.S. MORELL D. McKENZIE, D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry Instructor donald j. Mclaughlin, d.d.s. solomon n. rosenstein, d.d.s. Instructor Staff HENRY J. POWELL, B.S., D.D.S. Staff DENTAL KEVIEW Twenty-two