Identifier: hygienedentalge00turn (find matches)
Title: Hygiene, dental and general
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Turner, C. E. (Clair Elsmere), 1890-1974 Rice, William
Subjects: Hygiene Teeth
Publisher: St. Louis, C. V. Mosby
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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perations demanding his highest skill. It followed thereforethat dentists undertaking to carry out this polishing, as aregular routine in practice, were obliged to seek aid; and theproblem was finally solved by training young women to actas assistants. The Dental Hygienist.—The legality of employing regis-tered assistants for the performance of operations on the teethgave rise to a controversy within the profession which finaltyresulted in an appeal to the legislatures of the various statesand in the enactment of laws that placed the practice of oralprophylaxis upon a legal basis and created a new and usefulvocation for women who are known as Dental Hygienists. Thework of a dental hygienist is carried on in much the same man-ner as was originally done by Dr. Smith, some modificationsand elaborations having been added since that time. Through the efforts of Dr. A. L. Fownes, the first School forDental Hygienists was established in 1914. Since that time 154 HYGIENE: DENTAL AND GENERAL
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O O o o UQ Gt3 Jr C ORAL PROPHYLAXIS 155 several schools have been organized and are now in operation.The Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children has a trainingschool in affiliation with Tufts College Dental School, andthere is another school at the Rochester Infirmary which wasestablished through the benefaction of Mr. George Eastman ofKodak fame; and a fourth school at the Dental Departmentof the University of Minnesota. The dental hygienist is given a good perspective of thefield of dental practice and is thoroughly trained in the activ-ities which she is to undertake. Not only does she cleanand polish teeth but in addition she is able to assist in anaes-thesia, x-ray work and the preparation of patients for oper-ations. The recent and rapid development of dental hygiene workamong school children has created an opening for dental hy-gienists in the official health organization of many communi-ties. The young woman of proper training and suitable per-sonality is extremely valuable in

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