Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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The 1951 The dentist in the post has been thoroughly indoctrinated with the tenets of a mechanistic philosophy. Admittedly, the need for meeting existent conditions led to methods of practice-based on expediency, which were ingenious and great, and mankind should be indebted. But. in answering immediate objectives, these mechanical techniques have tended to perpetuate themselves and have led to certain conceptions of the scope of dental practice retarding its development in certain desirable directions. Today, we have access to advanced biologic facts and to new scientific methods, which should lead us in a new direction. Our mechanical brilliance cannot stand alone. We must tread the path boldly and seek new heights on which to plant our flag. We as individuals must participate in the activities of scientific bodies, and command respect as scientific workers, achieving a standing of merit among cultural and educational groups. Practiced to the heights of its possibilities, dentistry occupies a position in public health of the first importance in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease in the promotion of better health. We must continue mechanical procedures of a highly intricate nature in controlling dental disease when it does occur, but we must continue also to emerge from the narrow pathway of correction and cure into the broader field of education, prevention and control. And if I am to be a practitioner of dentistry which with so great effort outgrows pure mechanical limitations, I must shroud myself with the cloak of the healing profession, and must assume the fine ideals of professional ethical judgment to be my creed. ’’The moral obligations and duties which rest upon a man and he is expected to assume and acknowledge by reason of his occupation are as important a part of his education and as worthy of his earnest attention and effort as the sciences and arts by the acquisition of which he seeks to prepare himself for his profession. EDMUND NOYES. D.D.S. PUBLISHED BY THE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL PHILADELPHIA,

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 Carry up then, the standard of your profession—plant it upon the broad platform of medical science—claim for yourselves and for your profession the same respect and importance awarded to other branches of the healing art; and that too, upon the same ground — the ground of thorough scientific education. ' Dr. Simon P. Hullihen, M.D., D.D.S. father of Oral Surgery Quoted in port from o valedictory oddrest delivered ot the Boltimore College of Dental Surgery.

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SENIOR CLASS OF DENTISTRY Pennsylvania