American Academy of the History of Dentistry Information from CareersInDental.com

Address:: 284 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Phone:: 617-731-6767
Website:: http://www.histden.org/
Company Information:: Dentistry in Crisis

Like other health profession, dentistry is beset by dubious machinations of government, politicians, commercial interests, labor leaders, social theorists, and would-be authors of utopian society. Indeed the profession is commonly refers to as an industry, the dentist provider, the patient a consumer.

Why?

One reason: too many dentists and other people do not know of dentistry's legacy as members of an honored profession in an ordered society, or the theory and practice of an ordered profession in an ordered society, or the theory and practice of professionalism. In short, uninformed of the history of dentistry, the practitioner is defenseless against those who would relegate him to the status of shopkeepers and his profession to that of a trade.

A half century ago

J. Ben Robinson, able dental historian and educator, observed that the indifference of the dental profession toward its history is largely the cause for the insecure position and predicted the profession would continue to flounder, perpetuate its handicaps, and fail to achieve its true purpose so long as it lacks an intelligent understanding of its historical background.

Now

Dentistry desperately needs the guidance of men and women not content with superficial accounts of its past, but interested and knowledgeable of its origin, the basis of its educational system, its organ

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