Proceedings of the National School of Dental Technics (Volume 1-11)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: toward the latter part of the term, which would certainly not be well. It will probably be better in most schools to shift some other branches to the senior year, if necessary, to make room for the operative technics in the first. Operative Technics. BY D. M. CATTELL, D.D.S., CHICAGO, ILL., Professor of Operative Technics in (he Dental School of the Northwestern University. The name, Operative Technics is understood as the title of a department recently added to the curriculum of a few dental schools. Since students began matriculating in dental schools as their first step in the study of our profession, rather than placing themselves under the guidance and direction of competent practitioners, where they acquire a certain amount of manual training before entering college, it has been noticed with regret that students in the clinical departments were not so well trained in the use of instruments at the beginning of their career at the chair as was desired; nor were those so apt who came first to college as those who had taken advantage of preliminary work under a preceptor. So marked was this lack of manual dexterity that when Dr. G. V. Black took charge of the infirmary of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery he immediately set about to devise some means by which this deficiency might be overcome. His cogitations resulted in a lengthy paper before the Odontological Society of Chicago, June 21st, 1888, entitled, Outline of a Course of Study in Operative Dental Technics. The culmination of this cogitation, paper and discussion following was the inauguration of the Operative Technic course of study in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, at the opening of its next school term, September 2ttth, 1888. When the first class of 86 students was organized, it ...