University of Southern California School of Dentistry - El Molaro (Los Angeles, CA)

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Endodontics The day we came into the clinic as luniors Endo was a one-day-a-week clinical course with a requirement of four canals. Then, before we could get started, it had changed to seven and two days a week! At present they ' re holding at seven canals, but five days a week — some weeks! Things have changed! On completion of the new building in 1970 operative, fixed prosthetics, prosthetics, pedodontics and periodontics will all be practiced on Wednesdays only . . . the rest taken by endo . . . we can even envision (heaven forbid) having to fill a canal for the State Boards! 1965 four canals 1966 seven canals 1967 fourteen canals 1968 twenty-eight canai 1969 fifty-six canals 1970 fifty-seven canals 1971 fifty-eight canals prs Answers at the wrong ti Behavioral Sciences ' Gentlemen, you have a fixation on the second stage of psychological development. This was not the opening statement by Dr. Nathan Freudman, but to us it was an important one. Now we knew why we were destined to become dentists. And, we were fascinated over and over and over and over and over and over again by the psychosexoanalytical material presented . . . again. Lots of people k)i.k lliemselves their bathrooms and have fun

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DR. HAROLD EISSMAN DR. PAUL EHRLICH Veil, I ' m checking clinics today, und I ' m afraid some of the verk stinks! It has been a rough year for Fixed Prosthetics. They got jumped a couple of times, and lost their Chinese checker. The chair appointment book is out, and the analyst ' s couch is in. Here is where we relax and return to the idea that dentistry, after all, is fun. Here is also where definite rules are laid down. Rules which you are not toviolate . . . unless you really want to! The only department that goes into finals without a premeditated exam! When things get tight everywhere else and the pressure is on, we could always journey into the world of Fixed Presthetics, don our bare-skin hat, and use our own experience and judgment to produce dentistry of which to be proud. This is the seat of experimental restorative dentistry ... we try high speed here, we try rubber base here, but the one thing we do not try here is a double-bite impression (oh yes, we are sure to always place gingival bevels in excess of forty-five degrees and never to overwax gingival margins). Perhaps the best way to indicate the Fixed Prosthetic Department is in psychological terms . . . the reliever of Worry, Anxiety and Fear . . . the Freudman couch of dentistry. Gas who? DR. BOB DAVIES ... we hope he ' s recovered when this is in print DR. BILL BRADY DR. STAN SMITH DR. HAROLD FETTER Dr. Brady, are those white things the teeth? Dr. Smith, that ' s the tongue! That ' s ok. prep it. I!jbL 3 y I don ' t think you can do ihat without getting a cement margin . . . ! 55

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My name is DOCTOR Worrell — you do have my table ready . . . ! Practice of Dentistry Let ' s give them their money ' s worth. Friday mornings should have a lecture. Thus the course, Practice of Dentistry, was born ... to fill a need. Another new on the dental curriculum, it rehashes some of the practictal phases of the business aspect of dental practice . . . and lots more: Dr. Edward Furstman obviously has been around and fills us in on some of the possible pitfalls of dentistry. DR. EDWARD FURSTMAN Conjoint Seminars It was three weeks before we had our first meeting and an inkling of what this newest of new courses was going to be. But the facts were clear . . . they wanted us out of the clinic that morning so the Freshmen could do Perio . . . another semester of Endo would be fool-hardy to print on the Senior schedule of classes so a more stimulating Conjoint Seminar might suffice (how to harass the seniors in the guise of educatiot The course may prove of value ... in some future phase of dentistry.