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

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Dentists are not traders in commodities engaged in a mer- chandising business. A dentist is a practitioner of one of the true ' learned professions ' like unto a physician or surgeon. Dentistry is one of the healing arts . . . and dentists, like phy- sicians, perform the highest type of skilled professional service for their patients. Dentists are men of profession, who by vir- tue of their talents and apti- tudes, and long years of study, and formal education, qualify themselves to serve mankind and to alleviate human suffer- ing. When a dentist furnishes a prosthesis to his patient, this is an inseparable and indivisible part and parcel of. the pro- fessional service of dentistry, which concerns itself with di- agnosis, treatment, restoration, prevention. A dentist does not, under the common understand- ing of things . . . make a sale to his patient. His relationship to the patient is not that of merchant and ' cus- tomer ' , but that of doctor and patient; a close relationship re- quiring the skill and expertness that come with a concentrated background of education, train- ing, and qualification. . . . We believe that the faculty of our school epitomizes these tra- ditions, and is worthy of them in every way. We are grateful to these men and women who have instilled in us a respect for the principles and heritage of our profession. This is dentistry .... From an opinion by Judge Walter B. Jones, Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Ala- bama, March 9, 1960.

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m m m m m Figure 4: Figure 1: Hesire — The first known dentist — Egypt, 3000 BC Figure 2: Hippocrates — Reduction of the jaw. Figure 3: Dr. Nevius in the act of administering anesthesia. Figure 4: Pierre Fauchard m m m m m 3» 33 m The illustrations accompanying the text are from Proskauer — Witt Pictorial History of Dentistry , DuMont — Schauberg Publishers. 13

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