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

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Few people realize the MISSION OF THE DENTIST Dentistry requires an exact acquaintance with and experience in the sciences and art. It demands tact, intuition and psychological finesse in order to acquire the art of persuasion and that moral authority necessary to anticipate and overcome those instinctive fears and hesitations on the part of the patient, more distracting than actual pain. A dentist needs such patience and great physical resistance. You have to sustain a perpetual restraint on all your senses, your nerves are strained, your body, your mind, your will and your sensitiveness. Always standing, often in a constrained position, your eyes are strained, both hands busy; they must be supple with the fingers contracted in the manipulation of several instruments at one time, every movement impeded by reflexes and reactions on the part of the patient, which are not always possible to perceive. And all this time you must remain imperturbable, calm, courteous, gentle and full of charity. The least defect of the mucous membranes of the mouth may have reper- cussions on the rest of the health of the whole. The mouth expresses character and feeling — a single fold of the lip, almost im- perceptible, often may transform and make an infinite alteration in the expres sion of the face. Thus there is a mysterious and surprising mission at- tached to the care of the mouth. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY