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

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Operative Dentistry LEROY L HARTMAN, D.D.S., Sc.D. Professor of Dentistry MAURICE BUCHBiNDER, B.S.. D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry MILTON R. MILLER. B.S.. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry CARL R. OMAN. D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry WILLIAM MILLER. B.S., D.D.S. Assistant in Dentistry lOi GEORGE F. LINDIG. D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry HERBERT P. FRITZ. B.S., D.D.S. Assistant in Dentistry IRVIN L. HUNT. Jr., D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry EDWARD H. KOCH, A.B.. D.D.S. Assistant in Dentistry

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WILLARD C RAPPLEYE A.M., M.D. HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY A.B., D.D.S.

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THE provinc e of operative dentistry is to treat symptomatically the ravages of dental caries. The existing infection is treated locally in its mani- festations in the tooth and an attempt is made to prevent its further spread. In early times, crude stumbling and super- stitious methods were used. Back in ancient Greece when good old homo sapiens had a tooth- ache he ran quickly into his kitchen, emptied his mouse trap and ground the bodies of the freshly killed mice to a powder. He mixed this with ground marble and inserted into the hollow of his tooth. And lo! the pain disappeared and the tooth was filled. The Incas, Aztecs and Mayans pre- pared cavities and inserted gold, cement and pre- cious stones — and not merely for decorative pur- poses. Guillemau, early in the 18th century, rec- ommended his improved white wax as a filling material. White waxe mixed with gumme elemni, white coralle and preparede pearles. Thus little was known of operative dentistry prior to the 19 th century, for the instruments then in use were crude; filling materials impractical and the dentist, no matter how skilled, was unable to make adequate restorations. In the 19th cen- tury came workable theories as to the nature of caries; replacement of antiquated instruments and filling materials and methods of cavity prepara- tion. Today, with our knowledge of dental caries gained by unceasing productive research, new developments and improvements in filling ma- terials and with exacting procedures for cavity preparation at our disposal, we are able to attack the problem of dental caries from a rational sci- entific basis. PEDODONTIA feMMMBH EWING C McBEATH D.D.S., B.S., B.M.. M.D. Professor of Dentistry LEWIS R. STOWE D.D.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN, B.S., D.D.S. Assistant Professor of Dentistry RADIOLOGY TODAY, more and more emphasis is being cen- tered upon the preventive aspects of dentistry Obviously the logical place to begin prevention is in early life. With this growing realization, the practice of Dentistry for children is becoming a greater and more important phase of dentistry than ever before. Formerly early carious loss of the deciduous dentition, with the resulting mal- development of the facial and jaw bones and mal-alignment and occlusion of the permanent teeth was a common occurrence. Happily that era is on the wane. In the words of Dr. McBeath — It is both probable and possible that the rapidly growing reverence for and fuller understanding of dentistry for children may eventually so change the perspective of dentistry as to reduce the magnitude of the technical superstructure. Its general contour would be much improved by the resulting symmetry and intimate co-ordination of its many equally important phases. . . . The trend would be toward a more satisfactory orientation of the dental profession as an important adjunct in the science and art of healing. HOUGHTON HOLLIDAY A.B., D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry r J HARRY H. MULHAUS Technician . U EVALD UNDER Technician