Community Dental Service; Dental Needs and Dental Facilities with Special Reference to a Dental Program for Chicago (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V Dental Service In Various Cities Boston. Boston has about 2,000 dentists for a population of approximately 750,000, in the politically defined city but as above mentioned, these dentists serve in considerable measure greater Boston, with about double the population. Taking into account additional dentists in the outlying regions, it is probable that there is one dentist for every 600 population, a very high ratio. A law permitting the employment of dental hygienists under direction of registered dentists was passed in Massachusetts in 1915. Examination by the Board of Dental Examiners is required, and the applicant must be a person of good moral character, twenty years old or over, who is a graduate of a training school offering a course of not less than one academic year or a graduate nurse with three months clinical training in a school for dental hygienists. There are a number of dental hygienists in the city, graduates of the school established by the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, in 1916, and of the Bridgeport course. The majority are employed by private dentists. In 1920 the Forsyth-Tufts Training School for Dental Hygienists had 99 graduates, of whom 23 were in public service, two in industrial clinics, 61 with private dentists, and the remaining thirteen not employed. This course is conducted in affiliation with Tufts Dental School. It covers twelve months and fits the pupil to teach 46 oral hygiene, to do prophylactic cleaning of the teeth, and to assist in dental surgical operations. The requirements for admission are good character, age not under nineteen years, and four years of high school or its equivalent. Boston is noteworthy for the variety of its dental facilities, the chief of which is the Forsyth Dental Infirmary. There are in addi...