Greene brothers' clinical course in dental prosthesis in three printed lectures : new and advanced-test methods in impression, articulation, occlusion, roofless dentures, refits and renewals / by Jacob W. Greene.

  • Greene, Jacob W. (Jacob Wesley), 1839-1916.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Greene brothers' clinical course in dental prosthesis in three printed lectures : new and advanced-test methods in impression, articulation, occlusion, roofless dentures, refits and renewals / by Jacob W. Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    our aged efforts to the new Private Insiniction Business for a livelihood. About teaching it: After many years' exper- imentation and gradual development, our prac- tical Course now embraces a System, including some advance test methods, where the work is exact and technical. Hence, the imparting of it to others is not a little matter to be told'' on the side=walk; nor even well taught at a distance, in hurried, public clinics, by an in- experienced novice. To our amusement, dentists sometimes tell us they already know our methods because someone has told them what they are. The fact is: to perfectly teach the Greene System (or any other) one must fully understand its basic principles, have expert experience, and be familiar with practical teaching requirements. To this end our business plan has been to instmct individuals, classes, and local societies, in limited numbers, in their towns and cities; usually by pre-arrangement. When wanted, we go also to colleges and instruct classes of advanced students, in groups of ten or less. At no distant time we hope to see many of the plate=work instructors in the schools famil- iar enough to themselves fully teach their stu- dents in the new ways. The trouble is that so many schools employ inexperienced men and boy instructors on glory=pay in this important branch of dentistry. The need of our Course is fitly emphasized when eminent prosthesists publicly assert that Good, artistic plate=work is fast becoming a lost art. Years ago, even up into the '80s, a goodly share of most dentists' practice consisted of plate=work. There was so much of it done,