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cant of the day for examination. The applicant then must appear
at the Secretary's office, where he is examined by four physicians
and a commission appointed by the Secretary. No dentist is in-
cluded in this commission.
The candidate is asked a few questions concerning the anat-
omy of the upper and lower jaws, the bones, muscles and blood-
vessels; what a dentist has to do when a person suffers from
toothache; when he will extract a tooth or kill the nerve and save
the tooth; what materials he will use for filling teeth, and how he
would do it.
The examination, which is oral, lasts, as a rule, 10 to 15 min-
utes, after which the candidate, if successful, receives his license
(diploma) to practice dentistry.
There is neither a practical nor a written examination. The
candidate is not required to possess a certain degree of school or
other scientific education. Anyone is admitted to this exam-
ination.
If the candidate is a foreigner, he must show a certificate from
a dental school or dentist of his country, duly endorsed by the
Legation of that country.
There is no dental school in Greece, nor anybody who teaches
dentistry.
There is no dental society nor any dental journal.

The registered dentists in Greece number 45.
In Athens there are 20.

ICELAND.

(DANISH COLONY.)

Area, 39,200 square miles. Population, 70,000.
Principal city, Reykjavik; population, 1,350.
There are no particular laws governing the practice of dent-
istry in Iceland.
There is one dentist, O. Nikolin, practicing on the island. He
was born in 1850, graduated in Denmark in 1883, an^ is located
at Reykiavik.