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

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o iggt, «S • - I i kJ » JOSEPH SCHROFF DOLGLAS B. PARKER FRANCIS S. . kLAFFKEY SA.MUEL BIRENBACH B.S.. -M.D.. D.D.S. M.D.. D.D.S. B.S., D.D.S. D.D.S. Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry Assoc. Prof, of Dentistry Assistant Prof, of Dentistry KENNETH F. CHASE ALBL R. SEIDEL F. A. STEWART. Jr. ROBERT X NORTHROP D.M.D. D.W.D. A.B., D.D.S. D.D.S. Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry Instructor in Dentistry JOSEPH L. McSWEENEY MAURICE J. HICKEY FREDERICK S. DOSCHER D.D.S. D.M.D.. M.D. B.S., D.D.S. Assistant in Dentistry Instructor in Surgery Assista nt in Dentistry 13

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Oral Surgery HENRY SAGE DUNNING D.D.S., M.D., B.S. Professor of Dentistry In 1906 the vriter had the privilege of or- ganizing the first Oral Sur- gery clinic and department in the City of New York a t the then well known New York College o f Dentistry, now the New York Univer- sity School of Dentistry. For thirty-five years the author of this little article has endeavored to train and equip dental graduates to become den- ' tal surgeons in the true sense of the word. Sur- gery of the mouth and jaws had been greatly neglected and overlooked as a surgical specialty for a long while, and you young men are really fortunate in living in this day and age when oral and dental surgery is a recognized branch of general surgery. After graduation you will be called upon in your professional life to treat surgical conditions of the mouth and jaws. Many members of the senior class will enter, it is hoped, the dental corps of the United States Army or Navy and as dental officers in the service of your country you will be in a position to render special dental and surgical care to members of the armed forces who are giving their all for their country- You will have a greater responsibility individually and collectively than any class that we have grad- uated in the last twenty-five years. We have tried to give you the opportunity to observe and follow the treatment of the many deformities, injuries, diseases and neoplasms of the mouth and jaws. ' e have striven to teach you local anesthesia, the practice of asepsis in the treatment of wounds and the general care of the surgical patient. This has been done by lec- tures, demonstrations and section work in the Oral Surgery clinic. We have struggled to in- culcate in you the principles that govern surgery in any part of the body, and to make you feel that you are a surgeon and a member of the great surgical family. This we have tried to do, but yet we want you to remember always that you are dental surgeons whose work is limited to the oral cavity. We hope that you will appreciate your opportunities to render valuable sei ' vice to suf- fering mankind and be aware of your responsi- bilities and limitations. You have received a fine, thorough training here at Columbia and I hope that you have been stimulated sufficiently bv your teachers to further prepare yourselves for your professional work. In order to do this you must continue your studies, you should ob- tain internships, you should work in hospitals and clinics, and you will, I am sure, offer your services to your country in this time of nation- al emergency. The oral sur- gerv staff joins me in wishing you Godspeed and the best of luck in your future work. ADOLPli BERGER. D.D.S. K illiam Cnrr Professor of Oral Surgery 12

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Prosthetics EARLE B. HOYT, D.D.S. Professor oj Dentistry Professional ideals are difficult to achieve and hard to maintain in normal times; a world in chaos, with the intellectual achievements of cen- turies overshadowed by force and materialism, intensifies the problem to seeming hopelessness. Each day we are forced to recognize this fact, as everyone of us is touched, now lightly, now more strongly, by the same sweeping circumstances that threaten to engulf us. Each day the fight continues, each of us must hold together that which has been gatliered at great cost. To the men and women who have dedicated their lives to humanitarian service through long years of training and who at last reach the thresh- old of fulfillment, it is tragic diat they should be confronted with this additional hazard to the fruition of their efforts. Against this background the successful pursuit of the problems of pros- thetic dentistry diminishes before the magnitude of more pressing needs. As one whose particular interest is concerned with a phase of the profession of dentistry, it would be trite for me to point out to you that there will be a new and increasing range of tlie use and application of dental prosthesis in all of its forms, that your services will be valued to the extent of your understanding of the basic problems of this field and of your ability to in- tegrate them with the other specialties, to caution you to remember elements of your teaching, which I think are important, or to point the way for personal success and happiness. This I can- not do because there will be a break — for how long no one knows — between undergraduate work and graduate activity in the normal sense. In a newer light much that had been consid- ered indispensable may be discarded or altered to the achievement of the same end in more di- rect fashion and to open new fields beyond. This is already happening in ways each of us can ob- serve and which could not have been brought about save by an upheaval of heroic proportions. There is some good even in the worst evil, and it is true that, as an outgrowth of these demands, we will all be bound more closely together as human beings, educators, and students. Who can foretell tliat die profession of den- tistry may not then realize its responsibility to public health and cease to think in terms of indi- vidual practice and individual preferment? This in itself would be an achievement no amount of peace-time conferences could pro- duce. It would carry us along on a wave of fresh enthusiasm to the infinite benefit of our com- ponent specialties. After all, there is nothing quite so important as ideas — the retention oi proved ones and the fresh conception of the new. Now more than e er is the time for youth, for faith, and for hope. EARLE B. HOYT 14