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

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3 — ' , COLUMBIA ORTHODONTIA T r HIS course was evolved with the purpose of instructing students in the fundamentals of Orthodontia. The required course consists of one lecture and three laboratory hours each week for a period of ten weeks. It is not the purpose of this course to prepare students to go out, upon graduation and practice Orthodontia. On the contrary it is intended to ac- quaint the dentist with the need for Orthodontia, to give him an understanding of the basic principles of this specialty of the profession, and to acquaint those who wish to specialize ' with some knowledge of what is required of them. For those who wish, during their undergraduate course, Orthodontia may be elected. These students are instructed in the construction of space retainers, labial and lingual arches, etc., for patients in the clinic. LEUMAN M. WAUGH, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Dentistry HENRY U. BARBER, Jr., D.D.S. EDWARD G. MURPHY, D.D.S., P.G. Instructor Instructor HERBERT H. ERNST, D.D.S. Instructor ARTHUR C. TOTTEN, D.D.S. DENTAL REVIEW Twenty-six

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COLUMBIA ORAL SURGERY RAL Surgery is, perhaps, the most glamorous phase of dentistry. We are fortunate, here at Columbia, in having a modernly equipped clinic and a staff of instructors who not only are well known as to reputation, but also have the ability of instilling into the minds of the students the principles, theories and technics of Oral Surgery. Doctors H. S. Dunning, A. Berger, F. S. McCaffrey and D. B. Parker all participate in the lectures and conferences where we are taught the theory and principles necessary to be known in the study of this all important phase of dentistry. The course is carried over a period of three years beginning with lectures followed by conferences on local and general anaesthesia and exodontia. In the third and fourth years, students are permitted to work in the clinic under careful supervision of the men of the staff. In the clinic the first real expe- rience in injections, extractions and dressings is received. Students are also required to assist in and observe the more delicate and difficult oral operations. In the fourth year time is also assigned to clinical demonstrations on various pathological cases where the condition is explained and a diagnosis made. The course as conducted gives the student the experience in exodontia, local anaesthesia and in the diagnosis of pathology so necessary in the instruc- tion of the embryo dentist. dental review Twenty-five

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COLUMBIA PROPHYLAXIS TJROPHYLAXIS, aside from its hygienic purpose, is particularly important to the students of the second year, in that it initiates them into the various difficulties to be met with when working in the month. This course, under the capable supervision of Dr. Anna V. Hughes, and assisted by Miss Hollis, gives the students a thorough going technic for handling the various types of instruments which are used to remove calcareous deposits. The student is first given a rhetorical survey of the entire field of operation. By means of mannekins with rubber flaps for cheeks the student proceeds to his instru- mentation studying closely the various positions necessary to be learned. After proper training in technic in which the cardinal principal, fulcrum point, is brought home, the operators are introduced to their actual work upon patients. Twenty weeks with two periods weekly are allotted to this course. This department serves its purpose in acting as the entrance to all departments of dentistry especially the department of periodontia. ANNA V. HUGHES, D.M.D. Professor of Dentistry KATHERINE HOLLIS, D. H. Instructor SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN, B.S., D.D.S. Instructor DENTAL REVIEW Twenty-seven