Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dentistry during the past sixty years has been extraordinary. Indeed, dentistry as a profession requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials...
...childhood, and endeavors to keep as long as possible the first teeth. Then begins the filling of teeth in which caries has appeared, the professional exhortation to cleanliness of the teeth, and the instruction in the means of keeping the teeth clean. The next service which the skilful dentist can render is straightening the second teeth when they appear in an irregular or disorderly manner. This is a service of no little consequence, for fine teeth contribute much to the comeliness of any human face, because the delightful human gesture called a smile usually uncovers the teeth. Next comes...
...looking forward to further development. It is expecting a separation of the professional work on the patient from the mechanical work, which can be done by a skilled mechanic on a pattern or mold. It will not long be necessary, indeed, it is not now necessary, that the professional dentist should make with his own hands bridges, plates, or other carriers of artificial teeth. The dentist of the future will make all the designs or patterns needed, just as the orthopaedic surgeon does; but he will employ skilled mechanics working in a dental laboratory to execute those designs. This change...
...know and we see that in the future the medical profession is to largely develop in the care of health not less than in the curing of disease, and nothing affects it more than the work which the dentist does. Therefore by its own development as well as by the internal development of the medical profession, dentistry is becoming more and more a branch of the great medical profession...
During the past six years the Dental School has maintained a free service for the sick poor of Boston, and has been prepared at all times to send a dentist to relieve such persons, either at their own homes or in the hospitals. This service has been recently extended in order to be of greater efficiency than heretofore. The School is now able to send one of its graduates, registered by the State board of registration, to relieve the pain of any sick poor person who is in need of immediate dental treatment. More extended treatment is postponed until...