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The requirements for examination are that the candidate com-
plies with the regulations of the school; if he is in possession of
a foreign diploma, he will be expected to comply with the re-
quirements, so far as they are applicable to his particular case.
He will be given an examination by a special commission, which
commission will demand practical examples of work, fillings, and
plate; also a theoretical examination in branches studied in this
school.
The number of dentists in Chili is probably 200, counting
phlebotomists (who also occupy themselves in filling and extract-
ing, as well as bleeding) and dentists with, and 75 per cent with-
out, diplomas, which include French, Spanish, English, Germans
and Americans; in this number must be enumerated four women
and the natives who have and who have not been to the States
(about ten in all). Along with these are Scotch, Irish, English
and German dentists who continually masquerade as American
dentists.
The name of the dental school is "La Escuela Dentistica de
la Universidad de Chile" (The School of Dentistry of the Uni-
versity of Chili)
No dental societies nor journals exist.
Until a few years ago, when some sons of what are called aris-
tocratic families received dental diplomas, the profession was re-
garded much the same as the barber, shoemaker or any other
trade. These young men were sent to the United States to study.
They were sent with all the advantages that letters of introduc-
tion and diplomatic protection could do for them; they returned
to Chili to practice their adopted profession. They, like all
people among their own, are not well received, which recalls
"The prophet in his own," etc., etc.
Relating to the dental work done among the people of Chili,
Dr. Macartney, of Santiago, says, among other things:
"A dentist may explain the advantage of some particular high-
class work; when he has finished, they will inquire if that is the
cheapest, and if there is anything cheaper they will always select

it. To such an extent is this true that not one plate in fifty is
made on any material except rubber, and this, too, in the practice
of the leading dentists."
For the above we are under obligations to Dr. Clyde Mac-
J.
artney, of Santiago.