The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-14
DENToRs SHOULD BE DOCTORS

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 National Newspaper Service. 32O | or care of Waterbury DemOcrat.) DENTORS SHOULD BE DOCTORS In an article here in February ''The Dentors Pull Boner"sI de- plored propaganda sent to the press by the Dental Institute of America (which 7 suspect is paper project) which encouraged waiting. a few days to treat what is popularly known as "ulcerated tooth". I said sucha policy is bad surgery, and that immediate treatment is always best-whether the treatment be ex- traction of the tooth, incision of the gum to drain the abscess or opening through the tooth to drain the in- fected root canal.
 April 6 the question was discussed again under the title Liberated Tooth Again." The day this article was published young man came to the office of dentor Che calls himself dentor) with his face badly swollen. The dentor told the patient | it was an abscess and that the tooth should be extracted at once. The young man said he had just paid a dentist two dollars for examining it and advising that nothing could be done to relieve him until the swell ing went down.
 Whereupon the dentor handed the young man the paper and asked him to read the article by Dr. Brady. "Yes, I've already read that-the nurse down at the plant showed it to me-" he replied.
 The dentor took X-rays of the young mans jaw, found the first molar abscessed, the second and third molars evidently broken down, with dead pubs, but not acutely abscessed. He extracted the three molars, required the patient to re- turn daily for four days, finally dis charged him well, and grateful to guess whom. The dentor extracted the three molars painlessly, by first injecting noyocain so as to "block" the inferior dental nerve.
 Extraction of tooth, abscessed or not, is not a minor or simple operation, but one that requires ev- cry care and considerat tion and every post-operative care 8 surgeon would give after any operation. Unhappily for the public, dentists are doctors in name only-and how!
 I don't care whether all the den- tists or for that matter all the doc tors in the country like it or not, I shall continue to agitate for reform in medical education. Every person who seeks a license to practice den- tistry ought to have general medi- cal training and the degree of M. D. as an indispensable foundation, and then such postgraduate techni- cal instruction as may be necessary to qualify him for the special field he elects.
 This reform must come eventually. It is absurd and ineXcusably waste full and extravagant to maintain separate institutions for educating and dentists-then to al- low both to use the title of doctor" to attract trade.
 Less than 8 hundred years ago there were no dentists except doc tors. How many more years must the public endure, and pay for, the which this irregular narrow, biased, altogether contemp- tible Yankee scheme of education fosters in its finished CD product?
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 The B. B. B. B. B.
 Over a week ago sent for the Bigger Better Brady Baby Book" and have not received it. (Mrs. B. P0
 Answer-As soon as your request reaches me the booklet will be mailed you. Provided-and hope this doesn't apply in your case-pro- vided the request is accompanied with a standard size stamped en- velope bearing your address. Local" or City" is not proper address. The Baby Book is free, but only to cor who comply with in structions.
 Don't Go Stale
 Several friends tell me they are following your iodin ration and feel ing much better. I am interested. (MrS. M. MO
 Answer-Send a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for Iodin Ration.
 No More Imposition
 Please send me your booklet Chronic Nervous Imposition" I can take it. (W. L. O.
 Answer-Out of print. Booklet Nerves and Nutrition" succeeded 1t. For copy of this send twenty cents and a stamped envelope bearing your address. It contains all that was in the old booklet and then some. I'm afraid the author is get ting sympathetic.
 Hernia
 May have your instructions for the cure of hernia by exercise. Can