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

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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.

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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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PRECLINICAL SCIENCE Any dental student or recent graduate from dental school knows that the preclinical or basic sciences are an important part of his education and training — why else should he have been forced to spend so much of his valuable time on them?!! Nevertheless, there often seems to be some doubt in his mind as to the actual usefulness of the information gleaned from these courses. For any who still harbor these doubts, 1 should like merely to stress the tremendous responsibility you are assuming when you treat your fellow man as a patient. If the preclinical science staff has fulfilled its obligation to you, you should leave dental school with a wealth of basic knowledge which will allow you to treat each of your future patients with understanding and confidence, to treat him as a living human being, an individual with a heart, lungs, nervous system, etc., as well as teeth — of one sort or another. Since there is no simple ready-made formula governing the human body and its reactions, you must be prepared to derive your own formula, your own plan of treatment for each patient as a unique individual and a unique problem. The more you know about the human organism, its anatomy, physiology and pathology, the more adequately you can treat each patient. But remember, that as you leave dental school, your education is only beginning. Through- out your professional career you will be learning — in a school which is sometimes even more demanding than the one you are leaving. Dorothy D. Johnson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy DOROTHY D. JOHNSON Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy William M. Rogers W. M. Copenhaver Edmund Applebaum Harry H. Shapiro Robin M. Rankow Charles R. Noback PhD. Ph.D. D.D.S. D.M.D. D.D.S., M.D. Ph.D. Harry P. Smith Wellington B. Stewart Martin Lunin Ph.D. M.D. D.D.S. Henry A. Bartels D.D.S. Lester R. Cahn D.D.S. James P. Cattell M.D.