The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-30
DENTISTS TO MEET
NATIONAL. ASSOCIATION WILL CON.
 vENE IN BIRMINGHAM.
More Than One Thousand visitors Are Expected From All Parts of
 The COuntry-Fine
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Birmingham, Mich. 29-tspeciai)- Everything is in readiness for the thirteenth annual meeting of the Na- tionai Dental Association. which will begin here tomorrow and continue for four days. Delegates are already arriving and 1t is expected that before the gavel falls Tuesday calling the meeting to order there will be several hundred representative dentists from all parts of the country in Birming- ham. Reservations have been made at all the, hotels while many of the delegates will be entertained at pri- vate homes. The headquarters of ths Association will te at the Hillman ho- tel while the sessions will be held in the City Hall building. The halls of this large building will be occupied by displays of dental goods manu- facturers. An interesting part of the convention will be the daily clinics that have been provided for. Some delicate dental operations will be ex- plained. The program for the conven- ton Is not only lengthy one but an interesting one for the dentists "pe- velopment of Face" Grown and Bridge-work." Principles of retention of artificial dentires." Phases of im- portance in nomenclature ''The elimination of fear in practice of den- tistry."-"Education Of the dental str- dent concerning preventive dentistry" operative dentistry, root canal treat
 ment," '"rhe evolution of tools." etc. are few ot the subjects on which
 prominent dentists from all sections of the country will be heard during the four days of the meeting.
 At the last exibit three thousand
 dentists from all parts of the country
 registered. While not that many are
 expected to attend the exibit this
 year 1t is expected that local and im-
 mediate vicinity dentists together
 convention will run the number up to a thousand or two. Preparations are being made by the local committee on
 entertainment for at least one thous-
 and strangers in the city to the con
 vention while some of the more opti-
 mist of the Birmingham dentists be-
 leve the number will go to fifteen
 hundred.
 V. E. Turner, of Raleigh. N. c. is president of the. notionai association. with William Crenshaw, of Atlanta, I vice-president from the South. W. T. | Chambers. of Denver. vice-president from the West; Eugene H. smith. or Boston, vice-president from the East 1;
 Fl. c. Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, cor responding secretary C. D. bHttefs
 Buffalo, N. Y. recording secretary:
 A. II. Melendy. Knoxville. Tenn.
 treasurer
 The lobby of the Hotel Hiliman. the headauarters of the association during the convention. is crowded with dele gates already on hand and as others come in they are given warm greet ing.
 The opening session will be given over to welcoming. Addresses will be
 delivered offering the welcome of the
 State, the city and the local dental SO.
 ciety The reply will be made by pr. | J. Y. Crawford of Nashville.
 The dental exhibit which is being put in place promises to be the most extensive ever shown. Space has been secured also in the banquet hall of the Hillman Hotel and the more valuable displays will be shown there.
 The manufacturers are arriving on
 every train and the assertion Is made that the display will be as interest ing as any ever attempted.
 President Turner of Raleigh, N. C., who was one of the first to get here,
 states that the reports of the secre- taries will sho wtha here have been some gains made by the society. and 1t is expected that 0 large number or new members will be enrolled during this session. -,.-- All tse prominent hotels of the city are rapidly filling up, many reserva- lions having been made for the dent ists. .