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REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 231
VENEZUELA.
(republic.)
Area, 632,695 square miles. Population, 2,234,385.
Capital, Caracas; population, 70,466.
The laws of Venezuela require all persons desiring to practice
dentistry to pass an examination (in Spanish) before a Board of
Examination, consisting of two dentists and three physicians.
The applicant has to pay an examination fee (not returnable) of
There is a dental faculty connected with the University of
Caracas (Dr. Mortimer Ricardo, Dean).
In Caracas there are about twenty dentists, but (according to
Dr. W. F. Phillips, of Washington, D. C.) only four good profes-
sional dentists. A few traveling dentists are to be found through-
out the country.
