The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-09
DENTISTS OF
The STATE ARE
NOW IN session
WELCOME ADDRESS BY W. r.
cooK-REsPONsE BY DR..
J. H. PHILLIPS.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HANDY
Dwet Upon The Strides That Have
Been Made In The Practice Of
Dentistry In This Country.

The Mississippi Dental Association
opened this morning at 10:30 o'clock
with a prayer by Rev. E. D. Solomon
of the Columbia Street Baptist church;
about seventy-five members being
present.
w. F. Cook in his address of
welcome showed how it was the pur-
pose of the organization to carry for
ward the science and art of dentistry.
He also spoke Of the care of children's
teeth and the effect bad teeth have
upon their school work.
DR.. ]. H. Phillips, of Meridian, in
response to the address of welcome,
read a very amusing letter from DR..
Price, Of Corinth, secretary of the AS
sociation and paid several beautiful
compliments to this city.
The next address was by the presi-
dent of the Association, Dr. G. Stuart
Handy. DR.. Handy spoke first of the
recognition that the profession OF
dentistry has received in the last ten
years from the national government
of the employment of army and navy
dental surgeons and how it came about
and why the national legislature al
the last session of congress authorized
the employment of two dental inspec
| tors for the public schools of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Next, DR.. Handy
| took up the state laws relative to the
practice of dentistry and the unfair
ness of same in comparing the physi
clan with the dentist and, as for {
remedy for said injustice proposed the
appointing Of a committee and will
the assistance of the association to &c
before the legislature until the sought
recognition was received.
The next subject taken up was the
suggestion that the association make
every effort to weed from among Its
ranks all those men who are menace
to the advancement of the profession
The man who guarantees his work
who, being convinced that he can &C
complish certain ends and to the ex
tent of permitting his guarantee, steps
beneath his dignity as a scientific
practitioner and creates in the mind o.
his patient anything but an elevated
idea Of his profession and which, DR.
Handy claims is the highest form O.
unprofessional conduct and the mos
evil form of advertising.
In order that students may not g
into practice poorly equipped to main
tain same and regardless of the char
acter of practice they may conduct
the speaker proposed a new methot
to be employed in the examining o
applicants. He then touched upol
that all-absorbing and most vital sub
ject before the profession today
"oral hygiene" and spoke of the dawl
of new era in the profession bein
brought about by movement starte
by the dental profession and of tn
time to come when those who hav
proflted through generations past wi
look back with admiration and graf
tude for those who started this move
ment.
The president recommended the al
pointment of a committee to be know
as the dental literary committee t
compile and condense such statistic
as are available, and it deems prope
pertaining to the benefits and adval
r tages to be derived from oral hygien
} besides several other duties. Tt
: president closed his speech by pr
a posing the increasing of due in ordt
that the work of the association may
3 carried out more successfully.
d The Ritter Dental Company has
= very interesting exhibit at the Hot
d Hattiesburg in charge of Mr.. H.
l. Bowers. The chair on exhibition
d said to be the one which won the fir
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