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

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COLUMBIA PEDIODONTIA LEWIS R. STOWE, D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN, B.S., D.D.S. Instructor EWING C. McBEATH, D.D.S., B.S., B.M., M.D. Associate Professor of Dentistry T) EDIODONTIA, that course dealing with the dental care of the child, is a specialty of dentistry that is receiving increased recognition in the pro- fession. It is now realized that the dental care of the child is a field in itself. With this thought in mind the college has set aside the entire half of the floor H clinic solely for the care of the child. Coincident with the operative work in the clinic, lectures are given by Dr. E. C. McBeath and Dr. L. R. Stowe. The lectures are concerned with child psychology, dietetics, pre-natal and post-natal, and dental therapy. In order to secure the most advanced theories concerning the psychological treatment of the child, guest speakers are invited from the Psychiatric Institute to talk at the lectures. The course is held for a period of twelve and one-half weeks with two clinic periods weekly. Lectures are conducted for ten weeks, one lecture each week. NTAL KEVIEW Twenty-eight

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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

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COLUMBIA PERIODONTIA HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY, A.B., D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry ISADOR HIRSCHFELD, D.D.S. Asst. Prof, of Dentistry — Chairman of Dept. HAROLD J. LEONARD, A.B., D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry WM. B. DUNNING, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Professor of Dentistry ' T ' HE dentist, in his ideal of perfect teeth in a healthy mouth, has a vision of optimum health unequalled by any other branch of the healing art. In this department it has been the desire of the instructors to instill the feeling of desire into the students to place the mouth of every patient in a condition of health and well being. Before starting the course in Periodontia, the student has a complete and accurate knowledge of normal teeth in a healthy mouth. In this course he is impressed with the need to return diseased and pathogenic oral conditions to this ideal. The course in Periodontia consists of twenty clinical periods devoted to dental prophylactic technic in the sophomore year, ten in the junior year and ten in the senior year. Ten lecture hours are held during the junior and senior years. Conference and lecture hours are conducted by Dr. J. Leonard and Dr. H. Hirschfield while the clinic periods are headed by the Drs. Hirsch- field, Dunning and Holliday. DENTAL REVIEW Twenty-nine