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

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PERIODONTICS Frank E. Beube, L.D.S., D.D.S. Clinical Professor of Dentistry Epidemiologic studies have shown that fluoridation of our water supplies, direct care by dentists of patients needs, and adequate dispersion of information to the public in respect to proper dental hygiene, can measur- ably reduce the incidence of the two major dental dis- orders — caries and periodontitis. Despite these achieve- ments, periodontal diseases and teeth decay are still widespread throughout the United States. As our pop- ulation increases, and it is doing so at a rapid rate, it can be expected that these two lesions will still be the main dental problems for our profession in the forseeable future. In fact, the situation would be immediately un- manageable if the two-thirds of the American people, who at present, receive no dental care, were to request limited dental services such as periodic oral prophylaxis and subgingival curettage. Our existing dental man-power could not possibly provide the populance with these basic treatment measures which assist in preventing periodontal diseases. To adequately grapple with our dental exigency, large sums of money — literally billions of dollars must be in- vested in dental education. The number of qualified clinicians should be increased by the construction of additional undergraduate dental schools throughout the country. These schools should be adequately staffed and appropriately compensated, with proper ratio of student and teaching bodies, and the dental curriculum oriented to periodontology, as recommended by the Committee on the Survey of Dentistry. Numerous Institutes of Pre- ventive Dentistry should be built to provide for clinical and animal investigation in the causes of periodontal diseases, dental caries and other oral conditions. More and improved graduate programs are essential for the training of dentists who will become the teachers, re- searchers and specialists of the future. Frank E. Beube L.D.S., D.D.S. Melvin L. Morris, D.D.S., Robert Gottsegen, D.D.S. Leonard Hirschfeld. D.D.S.

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Burton Weidman. D.D.S.. Mortimer Karmiol, D.D.S Eugene M.Tedaldi, D.D.S. Edward Zerden. D.D.S. Irwin D. Mandel. D.D.S.. Stephen Wotman, D.D.S. George Schnapp, D.D.S., Frances R. Karlan, D.D.S.. Paul Kornfeld. D.D.S. Michael Z. Marder. D.D.S.. Stanlev M. Steinerman. D.D.S. Morton R. Schoenberg. D.D.S.. Ida M. Golomb. D.D.S.. Joseph A. Cuttita. D.D.S.

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Ralph S. Kaslick. D.D.S.. P. Charles Gabriele, D.D.S., Herman Cantor. D.D.S. Richard E. Goldberg. D.D.S. Murray Schwartz. D.D.S., Irving A. Karel. D.D.S., Ellen N. Hosiosky. D.D.S. Bernard Telsev, D.D.S., Albert Salkind. D.D.S. Alvin D. Cederbaum, D.D.S., Herbert I. Oshrain. D.D.S., Charles L. Berman, D.D.S. Ronald B. Odrich, D.D.S., Norman H. Joondeph. D.D.S.. Jack E. Chachkes. D.D.S., Seymour Algus, D.D.S.