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FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A GENERAL PRACTITIONER OF DENTISTRY

HENRY W. GILLETT, D.M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1930;4(2):228-239.

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The present trend of dental thought and research is strongly toward prevention of oral disease, and for that part of the juvenile public which cooperates, much of the familiar, corrective labors of the dentist are becoming less necessary. Further discoveries in prevention seem imminent, and the increased interest of the medical profession in the one organ concerned in nutrition, the functional activity of which is largely controllable by the patient, will be a potent influence in furthering public health.

There is plenty of evidence in case histories of the direct etiologic relation of foci of the mouth to inflammatory disturbances of the eye. In this effort to establish a better contact between the medical and the dental divisions of health service, one is confronted with the fact that those in each division are usually poorly informed concerning the anatomy, pathology and the functions of the organs in the care . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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NEW YORK

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, May 19, 1930.

Read before a joint meeting of the Section of Ophthalmology of the New York Academy of Medicine and the New York Academy of Dentistry, April 3, 1930.

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