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PREFACE
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The book was written primarily to fill a long-felt need for
one that would suitably present the subjects of Dental Anat-
omy and Operative Technics for his own classes. Now, how-
ever, owing to the enlargement and wider scope the author
believes it will also meet the needs of busy practitioners seek-
ing knowledge in concise form, as well as those of teachers
of the subject in other schools; relieving the latter of the te-
dium of culling from larger texts material for the preparation
of lectures and aiding them in the mapping out of an adequate
technic course.
The existence of two such excellent works on Dental Anat-
omy as those of Broomell-Fischelis and Black precludes the
necessity for another, hence Dental Anatomy is confined to
one chapter which may prove an aid to the teaching and
study of one or the other of these books, as it outlines (which
outline is the outcome of consultations with some of the most
prominent teachers of the subject in this country), a technic
course which has been modeled to suit the needs of the
average student.
The technic exercises are the result of a study of the
courses as taught in many of the prominent schools, and an ex-
perience of over twenty years as a teacher of the subject.
They may be modified according to the judgment of the
teacher to suit the needs of any classes.
The writer has freely consulted the most important works
on modern Operative Dentistry and herewith acknowledges
his indebtedness to their authors for material used. The
perfection of our modern methods of operative procedure is
the result of a gradual evolution in the thought and effort
of many minds, hence, no great originality can be claimed
—
for the subject matter in this volume ''Knowledge advances
J*
by steps and not by leaps and bounds,"
Vlll
The book was written primarily to fill a long-felt need for
one that would suitably present the subjects of Dental Anat-
omy and Operative Technics for his own classes. Now, how-
ever, owing to the enlargement and wider scope the author
believes it will also meet the needs of busy practitioners seek-
ing knowledge in concise form, as well as those of teachers
of the subject in other schools; relieving the latter of the te-
dium of culling from larger texts material for the preparation
of lectures and aiding them in the mapping out of an adequate
technic course.
The existence of two such excellent works on Dental Anat-
omy as those of Broomell-Fischelis and Black precludes the
necessity for another, hence Dental Anatomy is confined to
one chapter which may prove an aid to the teaching and
study of one or the other of these books, as it outlines (which
outline is the outcome of consultations with some of the most
prominent teachers of the subject in this country), a technic
course which has been modeled to suit the needs of the
average student.
The technic exercises are the result of a study of the
courses as taught in many of the prominent schools, and an ex-
perience of over twenty years as a teacher of the subject.
They may be modified according to the judgment of the
teacher to suit the needs of any classes.
The writer has freely consulted the most important works
on modern Operative Dentistry and herewith acknowledges
his indebtedness to their authors for material used. The
perfection of our modern methods of operative procedure is
the result of a gradual evolution in the thought and effort
of many minds, hence, no great originality can be claimed
—
for the subject matter in this volume ''Knowledge advances
J*
by steps and not by leaps and bounds,"
