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The Journal of Oral Surgery
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Senate who have been most considerate and understanding in pro moting the legislation that, in a crucial period, accords a signal honor to the dental profession.
THE JOURNAL OF ORAL SURGERY T o meet a demand that has been increasingly insistent for several years, the Am erican Dental Association is beginning the publication of a Journal of Oral Surgery, in January 1943. From its very establishment, T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n has published monthly a considerable number of articles on oral surgery, and coming from the leading oral surgeons, but as the specialty has grown, so has the demand grown for more literature on oral surgery, and a journal devoted solely to the publication of oral sur gical articles seemed to be the only answer. In accord with that demand, the Trustees of the Am erican Dental Association, at its meeting in Houston, in 1941, made provision for the publication of a journal devoted solely to promoting the interests of the surgical aspects of dentistry. A questionnaire was circulated among the members of the Association to ascertain the number who would be sufficiently interested in the publi cation of such a journal at the subscription price of $5.00 for a quarterly journal, with the understanding that if and when the m aterial volun tarily contributed warrants it, the journal would be published monthly. T h e response to the questionnaire was so enthusiastically in favor of a specialty journal that some three thousand dental practitioners, members of the Am erican Dental Association, agreed to subscribe for a journal as soon as it could be established. And the response to the formative efforts, in so far as material for such a proposed journal is concerned, has been such as to encouragingly hearten those who have been connected with the formative stages of the project. It is quite fitting and proper that oral surgery should promote a journal devoted to that specialty, as oral surgery was the first branch of dental practice to attain the status of a specialty. In fact, in the early stages of the development of dentistry, it was so predominantly surgical that the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery became the designational title of those who pursued the prescribed preparatory educational course of
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study for dentistry. T h e trend toward the surgical has continued to be dominant until, today, there is a large m ajority of those practicing dentistry who still like to be designated as Doctors of D ental Surgery. N o more fitting time could have been chosen for the establishment of a medium devoted to the promotion of oral surgery in view of the important role that dentistry and oral surgery are destined to play in the health service of the A rm y and N avy, in combat and in rehabilitating and in restoring to useful service those who suffer injuries of the face and jaws. T h e Journal of Oral Surgery w ill be published quarterly and under the m anagerial direction of the staff of T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n . T h e Editor of T h e J o u r n a l , Dr. L . Pierce A n thony, w ill be the supervising and collaborative Editor-in-Chief, with Dr. C arl W . W aldron, Minneapolis, Minn., as the Editor, and w ith the fol lowing editorial b o ard : Dr. Theodor Blum, N ew York, N . Y . ; Dr. James R. Cameron, Phila delphia, P a .; Dr. J. O rton Goodsell, Saginaw, M ic h .; Dr. V . H . K azanjian, Boston, M a ss.; Dr. H oward C . M iller, Chicago, 111 ., and Dr. D oug las B. Parker, N ew York, N . Y . D r. W aldron is eminently qualified to assume the responsible editor ship of the proposed journal, and with the supporting aid of such a distinguished Editorial Board, we are assured of the success of the new journal. In another department of this issue, Association Activities, a more detailed history of the movement w hich has led to the establishment of the new journal is interestingly delineated by Dr. H ow ard C . M iller, a member of the Editorial B o ard ; and, too, there is enthusiastically por trayed the hopes, the ambitions and the purposes o f this new project.
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Senate who have been most considerate and understanding in pro moting the legislation that, in a crucial period, accords a signal honor to the dental profession.
THE JOURNAL OF ORAL SURGERY T o meet a demand that has been increasingly insistent for several years, the Am erican Dental Association is beginning the publication of a Journal of Oral Surgery, in January 1943. From its very establishment, T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n has published monthly a considerable number of articles on oral surgery, and coming from the leading oral surgeons, but as the specialty has grown, so has the demand grown for more literature on oral surgery, and a journal devoted solely to the publication of oral sur gical articles seemed to be the only answer. In accord with that demand, the Trustees of the Am erican Dental Association, at its meeting in Houston, in 1941, made provision for the publication of a journal devoted solely to promoting the interests of the surgical aspects of dentistry. A questionnaire was circulated among the members of the Association to ascertain the number who would be sufficiently interested in the publi cation of such a journal at the subscription price of $5.00 for a quarterly journal, with the understanding that if and when the m aterial volun tarily contributed warrants it, the journal would be published monthly. T h e response to the questionnaire was so enthusiastically in favor of a specialty journal that some three thousand dental practitioners, members of the Am erican Dental Association, agreed to subscribe for a journal as soon as it could be established. And the response to the formative efforts, in so far as material for such a proposed journal is concerned, has been such as to encouragingly hearten those who have been connected with the formative stages of the project. It is quite fitting and proper that oral surgery should promote a journal devoted to that specialty, as oral surgery was the first branch of dental practice to attain the status of a specialty. In fact, in the early stages of the development of dentistry, it was so predominantly surgical that the degree Doctor of Dental Surgery became the designational title of those who pursued the prescribed preparatory educational course of
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study for dentistry. T h e trend toward the surgical has continued to be dominant until, today, there is a large m ajority of those practicing dentistry who still like to be designated as Doctors of D ental Surgery. N o more fitting time could have been chosen for the establishment of a medium devoted to the promotion of oral surgery in view of the important role that dentistry and oral surgery are destined to play in the health service of the A rm y and N avy, in combat and in rehabilitating and in restoring to useful service those who suffer injuries of the face and jaws. T h e Journal of Oral Surgery w ill be published quarterly and under the m anagerial direction of the staff of T h e J o u r n a l o f t h e A m e r ic a n D e n t a l A s s o c ia t io n . T h e Editor of T h e J o u r n a l , Dr. L . Pierce A n thony, w ill be the supervising and collaborative Editor-in-Chief, with Dr. C arl W . W aldron, Minneapolis, Minn., as the Editor, and w ith the fol lowing editorial b o ard : Dr. Theodor Blum, N ew York, N . Y . ; Dr. James R. Cameron, Phila delphia, P a .; Dr. J. O rton Goodsell, Saginaw, M ic h .; Dr. V . H . K azanjian, Boston, M a ss.; Dr. H oward C . M iller, Chicago, 111 ., and Dr. D oug las B. Parker, N ew York, N . Y . D r. W aldron is eminently qualified to assume the responsible editor ship of the proposed journal, and with the supporting aid of such a distinguished Editorial Board, we are assured of the success of the new journal. In another department of this issue, Association Activities, a more detailed history of the movement w hich has led to the establishment of the new journal is interestingly delineated by Dr. H ow ard C . M iller, a member of the Editorial B o ard ; and, too, there is enthusiastically por trayed the hopes, the ambitions and the purposes o f this new project.