Dental Digest Volume 11 (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.1905 Excerpt: ... failures and learned valuable lessons from them, as we had someone to put us right without long series of useless experimentation. I consider it an ideal method of improving one's skill and of getting new ideas and enthusiasm. Dr. N. S. Hoff: I would say that this course is an effort on the part of the dental faculty of the university to put at the disposal of the profession in this state the facilities used for instructing students. We hope for two things: First, that the profession will show its appreciation by availing itself of this opportunity to secure near home instructions of the highest order in technical affairs for a reasonable fee, which it has never had an opportunity to secure except by going a long distance and obtaining at great expense, and second, that this will result in inspiring practitioners of our state to contest with each other in the attainment of superior skill, so that in time we shall have all the clinicians necessary to demonstrate every new or valuable method in any of our local or state societies without sending abroad to import someone, in order that our meetings may not be failures so far as the clinics are concerned. HOW MUCH ORTHODONTIA SHOULD THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER DO? BY MARTIN DEWEY, D. D. S., M. D., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. READ BEFORE THE SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN DENTAL SOCIETY, AT KALAMAZOO, APRIL 11-12, ICpS. The practice of orthodontia is by no means new, as we find the first text-books on dentistry contained chapters on the "correction of irregularities of the teeth," but it is within recent years that we find interest increased to such an extent that any dental journal you may pick up almost invariably contains articles on orthodontia. The cause of this new and increased interest in the subject of orthodontia is the f...