University of Toronto Dental Students Society - Hy Yaka Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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2: 1- ' ! a P l 1 Wiki-, Instructional laboratory the main clinic to assist dental officers, bringing him in direct contact with the human oral cavity. After four weeks of this training, the cadets again leave Borden to return to their respective universities. After candidates have finished their third dental year at university, they are sent to the Royal Canadian Dental Corps School. It is a brand new school, and second in training facilities only to the new school here in Toronto. It has a junior and senior dental laboratory all equipped with the latest in lab equip- ment. The main clinic floor has new units, all of which are outfitted with high speed drills, each unit is in a separate cubicle allowing the dental officers and his assistant a semblance of privacy with each patient. On the main floor is a large library on whose shelves are the latest periodicals and texts, there are also two main lecture rooms, one equipped with film-projection equipment. For the first three weeks at the Dental School, the cadet receives training in the care of all dental equipment. He learns at the same time how the Dental Corps operates in time of war and he be- comes familiar with the field dental units. He is also introduced to the method of documentation for Page 58 An operating bay keeping records of all treatment, indenting for equip- ment and materials, and how to control the use of this equipment and materials. Fully qualified instructors then give refresher lectures in periodontia, partial denture planning, oral surgery, anaesthesia, and operative dentistry. With these smaller classes, the instructors are able to give individual attention, thereby increasing the confi- dence and skill of the student. At the end of the first month, the students are sent to the main clinic where they immediately be- gin treating dental problems. Each cadet is super- vised by a senior instructor, and assisted by a dental assistant. Here again, individual attention helps the cadet in perfecting his dental ability. It was once, perhaps, a popular conception that the type of dentistry done in the Corps was an in- ferior one . . . that exodontia is practised in the majority of dental cases. Well, let's straighten that out right nowg one of the senior clinicians at the school once said If there were as much effort in learning how to save a tooth by putting in a proper restoration, as there is in how to remove a tooth . . . . exodontists would be out of a job . To sup- port his claim he showed that the only surgery done in the school was impactions, fractures and repair of maxillo-mandibular wounds. Only on the rarest of occasions is a carious tooth removed, and then, only after hours of pulp-resuscitation have proved fruitless. The summer ends all to soon for the cadet at the Dental Corps School, he now returns to his university for his final year, with considerable more experience and confidence than his civilian counter- parts. The training the ROTP cadet has undergone has prepared him as a leader of men and made him physically and mentally fit. He is now ready, after graduation, to become a permanent professional member of the Royal Canadian Dental Corps. - EW Gaza Cedized by Brig. K. M. Barrd, Director General of Dental Servicer, 0T1'A WA 9

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