The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-10
AMER|Cl.S DENTISTS
lSt DOING WAR WORK
Ten Thousand Of Them Already
In the Service-Those at
Home Are Helping.

Chicago-Six thousand Of the $4,000
dentists in America are in active mill
tary service and 20. 1000 OF these re-
naming at home are members of the
preparedness league and have per-
formed more than 500 900 dental OPP
erations free of charge to permit young
men to pass strict military cxamina-
lions. Members of the National Den
tai association from all parts Of the
country are gathering here for a big
Twin the War" convention August 5
TO 10, at which results already obtained
will be reviewed and plans discussed
for extending further aid to the gov
eminent. Ten thousand delegates are
expected to attend.
The Canadian Dental association has
decided to attend In a body instead OF
meeting in Canada this year, and this
will give the convention an internal
tional character. A series of dental
especial attention to pyorrhea and
focal infection. the TWO teeth diseases
mostly feared by he public. n steps
VIII be taken to impress upon young
men the a~dvisability of consulting
dentists before entering military serv-
Ice and thus relieving the great strain
on the army and navy dental corps.
Then will be taken up the art of
plastic surgery, which was developed
by the dentists to meet conditions
brought on by trench warfare. Start
ling results achieved in restoring
health and making normal the appear
ance Of men suffering serious face
wounds by mean Of plastic surgery
have given the dentists a new dis
tinction.
Recognition Of the Importance of the
dentists work has led the military au-
thorities to place members of the pro
fession In the service on a full equality
with other members of the medical
corps and for the first time the dentist,
as well as the medical man, is eligible
TO a commission as high as colonel.
The splendid response of the American
dentist to the demands of var ante
dates Americas entrance into the on
flict. The preparedness league, found
ed and headed by DR.. j. w. Beach,
New York, was the %outgrowth Of vol
untary and extended by a group Of
New York state dentists to Canadian
dentists. These Americans crossed into
Canada and contributed their services,
when the Canadian dental corps was
having difficulty meeting the great de-
mands upon It.
League Members Busy.
Thousands Of members of the pre-
paredness league now are devoting
part of their time to the work Of pre-
pairing men for military service. They
SStlIIfilc Tic nuIlDeT OI Tree utIltdl
operations will reach the 1,000, 900 mark
before the first of the "a The Psi
Omega, leading dental fraternity, has
pledged every orc Of it's $1,000 members
to extend free services to aid proSpec-
tive soldiers in getting into uniforms.
DR.. ID. u. Cameron, Chicago, has ar
ranged for a big loyalty banquet On the
opening day at which a Psi Omega
service flag bearing 1907 stars will be
unfurled. The National Associations
service flag, bearing 5000 stars, will
be unfurled the opening day.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills and Lieut..
will be the chief speakers at a big
patriotic meeting August Z, owe which
Col. William H. G.. Logan. Chicago,
president Of the national association,
will preside.
important Changes in the Medical
Department Of the Army will be the
subject Of an address by Maj. Gen.
William c. Gorgas, surgeon general OF
the army, at another session. Lieut..
Col. Horace d. Arnold will outline the
urgeo generals plans for maintain
ing the health Of the soldier. Colonel
Logan n Maj. Robert III. Ivy and
Joseph ID. Eby of the army will dis
cuss and illustrate the wonders OF
modern plastic surgery, and Col. Guy
Hume, returning from active service
with the Canadian army in France, will
tell Of his observations. A bronze
statue Of the late DR.. Greene Vardiman
Black, OF Chicago, one OF the great
pioneers Of dental research, which Is
life size and stands in Lincoln park,
will be unveiled on August s. Thous-
ands Of American dentists contributed
to the fund with which the monument
was CnnctrtnfaI