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

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William A. Verlin Julian Schroff Marc Louis Berg Philip Kutner Janice Schreiber George Kiriakopoulos DDS DD.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. ernard Nathanson D.D.S. Ovid Slavin Laurence Marder Arnold Rosenberg D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Mark Benes D.D.S. Abraham Kobren D.D.S. Jerry J. Adelson D.D.S. Dentistry, as a profession in our social structure, implies a high order of responsibility to society, because of the nature of the health service it represents and the manner in which the dentist provides it. The every day dentist-patient relationship is such that trust and con- fidence are factors of greatest importance. Being the repository of the trust and confidence of his patients, the dentist must have an unques- tioned, inherent ethical sense in ored to discharge his professional obligations. This represents the sum total of his basic honesty, drive for perfection, and the constant desire to do what is best for his patients ' health and welfare. The dentist ' s responsibility to society today includes an additional function which offers a challenge and a satisfaction probably unequalled by any other professional accomplishment. This additional function is prevention of disease. The challenge lies in the dentist ' s ability to re- cognize disease and its etiological factors, and to recommend measures for elimination of the disease and the factors causing it. Our greatest challenge today is the prevention of dental caries in children. This is the most prevalent disease of our time, and its incidence is increasing. Its eradication by means of dental procedures is impossible of attainment. The dental graduate must accept the children of his area as patients, and be prepared to solve their pedodontic problems, espe- cially those relating to prevention. Only through positive exercise of preventive measures can the trend be intercepted. Through such means the dentist can truly fulfill his responsibil ity to society. Solomon N. Rosenstein. DDS Professor of Dentistry PEDODONTICS SOLOMON N. ROSENSTEIN D.D.S. Professor of Dentistry Director of Pedodontics

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Clifford Whitman Julius Tarshis Harry A. Galton D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Francis J. Loughlin Henry Nahoum D.D.S. D.D.S. James Jay D.D.S. Monroe Gliedman Richard Gliedman Edward Teltsch D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Walter Spengeman David Blistein D.D.S. D.D.S. Bert B. Schoenman D.D.S. NICHOLAS A. DI SALVO D.D.S., Ph .D. Associate Professor of Dentistry Director of Orthodontics In this era of relative individual economic well-being, when organized groups exert continuous pressures at every turn in order to assure their own increasing material benefits, too little is said about the responsibili- ties of such groups to society at large. It is thus appropriate that the Class of 1958 should choose as its theme, The Responsibility of the Dentist to Society. For other groups to forget their responsibilities may be merely in- considerate; for dentistry it would be a serious violation of the cardinal principle, that the welfare of the patient must supercede all other con- siderations. We must guard and preserve this principle at all cost, for not only are moral and legal questions involved, but also our own economic well-being. Patients immediately sense an attitude which does not make their welfare of paramount importance and will avoid such practitioners in self-defense. The dentist has as his minimum legal responsibility, the maintenance of his fund of knowledge and his proficiency at least at the level which is considered average in his community, but his moral and ethical obliga- tions demand that he continually strive to supercede this minimum and to develop his professional skills to the highest level which his capabili- ties permit. This can only be accomplished by keeping awake that desire for self-improvement which our teachers have tried to instill in all of us during our stay at school. Take pride in the work you do and in the knowledge that you provide a real service to society — for these can be the greatest of all the rewards which the practice of dentistry brings. Nicholas A. DiSalvo, DDS Associate Professor of Dentistry ORTHODONTICS

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T. Mitchell Bundrant Kourken A. Daglian Bertram Klatskin D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Morris Fierstein Alvin S. Nathan Fred Rothenberg D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. ORAL SURGERY Oral Surgery is associated maximally to the medical aspects of the overall care and treatment of patients. Although identified as a specialty, it requires knowledge of physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, oral and internal medicine. It is impossible at the undergraduate level to inculcate the full measure of instruction and training in exodontia and basic oral surgery that is necessary for proficiency since less than two percent of a student ' s time is devoted to oral surgery. This obvious inadequacy must be augmented by post graduate work, especially through internships and later by residences and hospital as- WILLIAM J. SAVOY, B.S., D.D.S. Clinical Professor of Dentistry Director of Oral Surgery sociation. Thereby, knowledge is increased, techniques are improved, and expe- rience is established to reward the individual with greater confidence and astuteness. The sad lament, If I only had taken an internship is becoming less frequent as graduates realize that internships can lessen the distress of their first anxious years of practice. The progress in dentistry is moving at a kaleidoscopic rate. To keep pace with it, all dental graduates should seriously consider the advantages of an internship, especially if the student is interested in Oral Surgery as a specialty. In this regard he should think further towards residences to complete his training. This type of training is vastly superior to the preceptorships of former years. You are the incumbents — you must shoulder the responsibilities and brunt of the years ahead. You must strive to keep oral surgery a dental specialty, and pre- vent its slow dissection and ultimate dissolution by other specialties which suffer from the age of chemotherapy. William Savoy, D.D.S. Clinical Professor of Dentistry Boaz Shattan Harold D. Baurmash Julian W. Anderson D.D.S. D.D.S. D.D.S. Sam Turof D.D.S. Stanley S Heller D.D.S. George A. Minerv D.D.S. Louis J. Loscalzo D.D.S. Morris Kavelle D.D.S. Louis Mandel D.D.S. Daniel D. Schube D.D.S.