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

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to achieve and even surpass the high standards of his predecessors with less expense of effort. The Dentist, like all members of society, is guided in his endeavors by the usual obligations to himself, his family and mankind. But, because he has been awarded, through specialized study, the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, certain further obligations are imposed upon him. He is in a position to diagnose and treat specific diseases which are outside the realm of every other branch of the medical sciences. Since he has the duty to care for these problems, he must provide himself with knowledge and skill concomitant with the best that Dentistry can offer at any particular moment. The advances in research, these new machines, these new methods, are the fruits of the labors of men dedicated to the alleviation and ultimate eradication of disease. This is the end to which they should be applied. The Dentist must take cognizance of these findings and use them, not for excessive financial gain, but for the benefit of his patients. This is the ideal to which we of the Class of 1957 now dedicate ourselves. unish-bom Andre Uiant 1543 treatise on anatomy, I)e humani corporis fabrica. Wesel. belter known as Vesalius dared medieval prejudice against dissection and eliminated many ancient misconceptions.

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JOHN J. LUCCA, D.D.S. Clinician Educator Friend