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

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Even as prosthetic dentistry will play a big part in the practice of our profession, so has the de- partment of prosthetics played its important role in our four years of study. Being one of the first technical courses which the freshman meets, and one which continues throughout our training, looming larger and larger in perspective as the senior requirements approach their dead- line, it is faced with a very modern problem — that of educational methods and technics. It is especially interesting to note how this department has answered the challenge of these new ideas, and how the student body has re- acted to its approach. The ideas of experimen- tation, reasoning, and analysis have superseded the unthinking acknowledgment of traditional methods, and has tended to inculcate a scien- tific attitude and an open mind. Guest lecturers present new solutions to old problems and the recognition of new problems. New technics are evaluated, new impression ma- terials employed — modified posteriors, imme- diate dentures, case study, case history — all take form — and begin to mean more than words in a periodical. The student is now given an oppor- tunity to study his cases and to face the problems from the standpoint of the patient as a human being, rather than the single problem of an isolated tooth in an isolated department. The entire dental course tends to take on a new concept and begins to approach an inte- gration which is so difficult in a departmental DEPARTMENT OF PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY routine. No longer is prosthetics set aside as a purely mechanical process, but it is correlated with the fundamental scientific courses on which we have spent so much of our time. This co-ordi- nation does much to indicate to the student the value of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology and pathology, and is instrumental as a stimulus to the acquisition of further learning which will in turn elicit new in- terest and research. The use of the motion picture in the educa- tional field was enthusiastically studied and ap- plied to dental problems by Dr. Crawford, whose excellent technics have become famous in this difficult, specialized subject. With the aid of other members of the department, many inter- esting films have been made, and others are now being produced. Dr. Crawford has also done a great deal of work on certain cases in co-opera- tion with the medical departments in reference to bite closure; and has done outstanding re- search in dental materials. Through the new courses in ceramics, the students are enabled to obtain instruction in thi= subject and do actual cases in this work which is becoming increasingly important. The strides taken by the Prosthetics and Crown and Bridge Departments have been note- worthy, and we of the graduating class are especially fortunate to have studied under this progressive spirit.

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PROSTHETICS WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry GILBERT P. SMITH MORELL McKENZIE D.D.S. D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry donald j. w. Mclaughlin D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry HAROLD S. WOODRUFF NORMAN W. BOYD D.D.S. B.S., D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Assistant in Dentistry HARRY A. YOUNG D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry JOHN F. RALSTON D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry EARLE B. HOYT D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry

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ORTHODONTICS HENRY U. BARBER, Jr. EDWARD G. MURPHY ARTHUR C. TOTTEN D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Dentistry of Dentistry of Dentistry LEUMAN M. WAUGH D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry FRANK E. RIANS HARRY A. GALTON LEWIS E. JACKSON GEORGE S. CALLAWAY D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry Associate Professor of Denti; - .