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The Presidents
LETTERS
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If our profession is to deserve the veneration it strives so hard for, we must be prepared to adapt our con cepts of care for the total patient to care for the total community, without exception.
—The technician is standing too close to the X-ray unit while expos ing film. —The technician is not wearing a film badge. AUDREY SPANGLE, CDA, RDA FRESNO, CALIF
HOWARD KIMMEL, DDS NEW YORK
Treating the whole patient Board of corrections □ Please refer to a photograph on page 709 (“People & Events” section) of the October issue of The Journal. —The X-ray shield is hanging on the wall, not on the patient.
□ I enjoyed “Stress and illness” in the November issue of The Journal. I am fully aware of the monumen tal task confronting the dentist in meeting the ravages of dental disease and neglect. Our journals are replete
with information on how to do this more effectively, but we need to see more articles on the holistic orienta tion to the practice of dentistry. A decade ago, when I was in front of students, we tried to correct the patchwork of dental health delivery, but now we seem to be moving in re verse. This is not meant to minimize the technical advances we have made in treating patients—but to say that we have to be aware of the individual and his total environment. . . . LOUIS A. SIMON, DDS, MPH RIDGE, NY
THE PRESIDENTS Each month, T h e Jo u rn a l prints the picture of a past president of the Am erican Dental Association with a brief biography and a few historical highlights of his presidential year. The series began in February 1979 with the first president and is continuing in chronological order.
Thomas Lea Buckingham 1 8 7 3 -1 8 7 4
Doctor Buckingham of Philadelphia was elected 13th president of the Associ ation at the 1873 meeting at Put-In-Bay, Ohio. A gold medal was presented at that meeting to Dr. Sanford C. Barnum, who originated the rubber dam for use in dental procedures. Doctor Buckingham, a dental educator, was a delegate from the Pennsylva nia College of Dental Surgery, of which he was a founder. He was born in Delaware in 1816 and died in 1883. Financial panic began with bank failures in September 1873 and developed into a five-year depression. Washburn and Pillsbury began reducing wheat to flour with use of chilled steel rollers. An important discovery of silver was made in Nevada. Because of the disputed election for governor of Arkansas, 25 men were killed or wounded in a battle at Little Rock.
176 a JADA, Vol. 100, February 1980
TO
THE
ED ITO R
If our profession is to deserve the veneration it strives so hard for, we must be prepared to adapt our con cepts of care for the total patient to care for the total community, without exception.
—The technician is standing too close to the X-ray unit while expos ing film. —The technician is not wearing a film badge. AUDREY SPANGLE, CDA, RDA FRESNO, CALIF
HOWARD KIMMEL, DDS NEW YORK
Treating the whole patient Board of corrections □ Please refer to a photograph on page 709 (“People & Events” section) of the October issue of The Journal. —The X-ray shield is hanging on the wall, not on the patient.
□ I enjoyed “Stress and illness” in the November issue of The Journal. I am fully aware of the monumen tal task confronting the dentist in meeting the ravages of dental disease and neglect. Our journals are replete
with information on how to do this more effectively, but we need to see more articles on the holistic orienta tion to the practice of dentistry. A decade ago, when I was in front of students, we tried to correct the patchwork of dental health delivery, but now we seem to be moving in re verse. This is not meant to minimize the technical advances we have made in treating patients—but to say that we have to be aware of the individual and his total environment. . . . LOUIS A. SIMON, DDS, MPH RIDGE, NY
THE PRESIDENTS Each month, T h e Jo u rn a l prints the picture of a past president of the Am erican Dental Association with a brief biography and a few historical highlights of his presidential year. The series began in February 1979 with the first president and is continuing in chronological order.
Thomas Lea Buckingham 1 8 7 3 -1 8 7 4
Doctor Buckingham of Philadelphia was elected 13th president of the Associ ation at the 1873 meeting at Put-In-Bay, Ohio. A gold medal was presented at that meeting to Dr. Sanford C. Barnum, who originated the rubber dam for use in dental procedures. Doctor Buckingham, a dental educator, was a delegate from the Pennsylva nia College of Dental Surgery, of which he was a founder. He was born in Delaware in 1816 and died in 1883. Financial panic began with bank failures in September 1873 and developed into a five-year depression. Washburn and Pillsbury began reducing wheat to flour with use of chilled steel rollers. An important discovery of silver was made in Nevada. Because of the disputed election for governor of Arkansas, 25 men were killed or wounded in a battle at Little Rock.
176 a JADA, Vol. 100, February 1980