THE 20TH CENTURY

What was the problem with stomatology being taught in medical schools in Europe and dentistry being taught as a totally separate discipline from medicine in the USA?

• Europe neglected the practical side of dentistry but in the USA the biological sciences were neglected.

• The U.S. neglected the practical part of dentistry and Europe did not study biological sciences at all.

• Europe did not teach biological sciences because it was part of the medical career, while in the USA there was no medical practice because dentistry was an autonomous discipline.

• They had no problem per se.

Dental assisting became a profession in the 1880s.  What were these professionals called in those years?

• Auxiliary Women

• Dental Hygienists

• Ladies in Attendance

• Dental Assistants

William J. Gies, in 1929 published a report entitled Dental Education in the United States and Canada, in which he concluded that:

• Dentistry should not be separated from conventional medicine.

• Dentistry should be separated from conventional medicine, but that it should be developed as a health service equal to medicine.

• Dentistry should become a discipline totally autonomous from any health specialty.

• Dentistry should belong to medicine and should be part of the university discipline of the latter.

Dr. Charles Gordon, with some of his colleagues, founded the Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI). What did this organization try to promote at its various congresses?

• the promotion of free dental check-ups for schoolchildren.

• the provision of free dental services and the improvement of their training.

• organizing hygiene and public education campaigns to improve the dental profession.

• All are correct

The introduction of professionals to be assistants to dentists proved to be a major step forward in counteracting the effects of dental disease. Who took that step forward?

• Dr. Alfred Civilion Fones

• Dr. David Ferguson

• Dr. Charles Godon

• Dr. Charles Edwin Bentley

What effect does fluoride have on the human population?

• Preventive effect on dental caries.

• In the right measure it causes brown stains.

• Wears down and erodes tooth enamel.

• Causes tooth decay.

In the early 1960s dentists were allowed to advertise their profession. What changes occurred with the production of these advertisements in the press and on the street?

• The people who responded to these advertisements were those who had never received dental care before.

• The physical locations of the dental clinics were changed to shopping malls, galleries or sales centers.

• An approach of all social classes (especially the working classes) to a dental office.

• All are correct

The development of which product by chemist Alfred Einhorn in 1904 revolutionized the practice of dentistry by eliminating pain from most dental procedures?

• Lidocaine

• Novocaine

• Phyllocaine

• Ether

A major step forward was taken in 1948 when the U.S. Public Health Service founded the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR). One of its main research interests was in the field of caries. What was the trigger for the development of caries?

• Chloroflexus aurantiacus

• E. coli.

• Clostridium perfringens.

• Streptococcus Mutans