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Military Plastic and Oral Surgery
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THE JOURNAL OF TH E NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION.
realize the tremendous responsibility involved upon them in the careful investment of these funds and every contributor may rest assured that this sacred obligation and responsibility will never be violated but that the funds will always be safe-guarded and no investment made without the advice of the best bankers in the country. If you have not already sent in your check, kindly do so immediately as it will save the National office time and expense in writing you a per sonal letter. MILITARY PLASTIC AND ORAL SURGERY. One of the developments of the war of importance to dentistry was the organization of the Division of Plastic and Oral Surgery by SurgeonGeneral Gorgas. This Division consists of an equal number of surgeons and “dental oral surgeons,” who have worked in teams, one team being assigned to each base hospital in the United States and overseas. The creation of this Division is amply justified by the appearance of hun dreds of articles in the current literature of surgery and dentistry upon this particular field of work; in fact, this field is rapidly developing a literature of its own. In war, the injuries involving the mouth usually require not only the ordinary surgical care, which would result in heal ing of the parts, but also special consideration to obtain the best masti catory apparatus and the minimum disfigurement of the face. As the percentage of face injuries llas been large, so has the need of special treatment by plastic surgeon and dental surgeon been very important. The fields of the dentist and surgeon have thus been closely interwoven and they will not be again separated. There appears in this issue of The Journal the first installment of lectures on Military Plastic and Oral Surgery, by Dr. Carl E. Black, delivered before an Officers’ School of Plastic and Oral Surgery. These lectures present the most up-to-date summary of war Surgical conditions in general and of oral surgery in particular that has come to our atten tion and we venture the prediction that they will claim the attention of military surgeons thruout the world. In connection with the lectures an extensive bibliography is published. The articles are grouped under thirty-five headings, a review of which (in the current paper) will give one a fair idea of the wide scope of the field of the plastic and oral surgeon. These lectures are accompanied by numerous illustra tions, several of them in colors. About two hundred dentists represent the profession in this service. They were specially selected and all reports indicate that they are car rying well the great responsibility which was placed upon them.
THE JOURNAL OF TH E NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION.
realize the tremendous responsibility involved upon them in the careful investment of these funds and every contributor may rest assured that this sacred obligation and responsibility will never be violated but that the funds will always be safe-guarded and no investment made without the advice of the best bankers in the country. If you have not already sent in your check, kindly do so immediately as it will save the National office time and expense in writing you a per sonal letter. MILITARY PLASTIC AND ORAL SURGERY. One of the developments of the war of importance to dentistry was the organization of the Division of Plastic and Oral Surgery by SurgeonGeneral Gorgas. This Division consists of an equal number of surgeons and “dental oral surgeons,” who have worked in teams, one team being assigned to each base hospital in the United States and overseas. The creation of this Division is amply justified by the appearance of hun dreds of articles in the current literature of surgery and dentistry upon this particular field of work; in fact, this field is rapidly developing a literature of its own. In war, the injuries involving the mouth usually require not only the ordinary surgical care, which would result in heal ing of the parts, but also special consideration to obtain the best masti catory apparatus and the minimum disfigurement of the face. As the percentage of face injuries llas been large, so has the need of special treatment by plastic surgeon and dental surgeon been very important. The fields of the dentist and surgeon have thus been closely interwoven and they will not be again separated. There appears in this issue of The Journal the first installment of lectures on Military Plastic and Oral Surgery, by Dr. Carl E. Black, delivered before an Officers’ School of Plastic and Oral Surgery. These lectures present the most up-to-date summary of war Surgical conditions in general and of oral surgery in particular that has come to our atten tion and we venture the prediction that they will claim the attention of military surgeons thruout the world. In connection with the lectures an extensive bibliography is published. The articles are grouped under thirty-five headings, a review of which (in the current paper) will give one a fair idea of the wide scope of the field of the plastic and oral surgeon. These lectures are accompanied by numerous illustra tions, several of them in colors. About two hundred dentists represent the profession in this service. They were specially selected and all reports indicate that they are car rying well the great responsibility which was placed upon them.