Oriskany (CV 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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Dental Department HE Dental Clinic on the Oriskany proved so elhcient during the Med cruise that CDR Walter B. Lett, DC, USN, Dental Officer, predicted it might serve as model for clinics aboard similar carriers in the future. A large compartment aft was divided into three operating rooms, each equipped with a reclining chair, the most modern devices and X-ray facilities. A clerical office also fitted into the layout. CDR Lett, LT Gage Colby, DC, and LTJG Robert Morstad, DC, with their assistants, handled about two hundred patients each month. That meant between 700 and 900 sittings. Records of the depart- ment showed the staff filled more than 5,000 cavities in the first six months of 1951. The two Assistant Dental Officers had received training as V-12 students. LT Colby earned his B.A. and D.D.S. from the Univer- sity of Minnesota by 1911-6. LTJG Morstad received his D.D.S. from the same school in 1949. Dr. Lett graduated from the School of Dentistry, Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, with the Class of '33, RIGHT: D. G. Rickert, DN, P. D. Marquis, DN7 H. D. Du Bois, DT2p G. Colby, LT: W. B. Left, CDR, R. J. Morsiad, LTJG. CDR W. B. I.ETT Dental Officer WOHC Charles E. McKay handled clerical administration of the Division until August 25, when he was transferred to duty with the Marine Corps. Enlisted assistants were DuBois, who took technician training at Bethesda, Md., Marquis and Rickert, who attended Dental Technician School at Great Lakes, and Bongiorno, who studied at Great Lakes during the summer. 5 s s f fri . ..... QS

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