Around the world dentistry by Ambler Henry Lovejoy

Author:Ambler, Henry Lovejoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History of Dentistry
Publisher: Cleveland, O. : The Judson Print. Co.
Published: 1910-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

tion of Faculties and Examiners in the United States. The Board shall issue a certificate to each one who furnishes proof of receiving a diploma from a legal dental college and in addition passes an examination before the Board. The law does not apply to artisans engaged in the mechanical construction of artificial dentures or other oral devices, nor to physicians and surgeons in legitimate practice. The Board can refuse to issue certificates and also revoke them for good cause. Penalties attached vary from fines of twenty-five to one hundred dollars, and imprisonment for not more than ninety days. Board of Examiners: President, H. C. Strong; Secretary and Treasurer, A. P. Preston; Antonio Vergel de Dros; all residents in Manila.

One of the coming industries on the islands will be rubber and gutta-percha, as the demand for them is rapidly increasing and prices have doubled during the past ten years. The cost of starting plantations is not great; no cultural skill is required, and the best land in the world for the purpose can be had here in unlimited quantities at two dollars an acre.

"In Mindanao rice and fish is the principal diet, and betel-nut chewing is the proper salad course. Chewing betel is a refined practice that gives the teeth the appearance of having swallowed a bucket of red lead. The male popoulation dress on the half shell, a gee string and a cigaret, proving an elaborate uniform. The ladies insist upon a rational costume, and some even go so far as to take the enamel off their teeth."

Canton, a very old Chinese city, with a population of about 2,000,000, has no European dentist, but the Europeans, when they want any dentistry, generally take a sail of ninety miles on the Pearl river to Hongkong. There are numbers of native dentists ranging from one who has a reception room with pictures, embroidered screens, carved furniture, emblems of good luck and happiness, down to the one who has a four by six reception room, operating room and laboratory all in one, opening onto the sidewalk in a street six feet wide. The latter had a basket of plaster casts, a little wax, plaster and a few crude tools, and his personal appearance corresponded with his office. His business was extracting mostly, but occasionally he tried to make a partial "plate" on vulcanite. Impressions were taken with common yellow beeswax.

There are no licenses issued to American dentists practic-

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