DENTISTRY FOR WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 3

DENTISTRY FOR WOMEN.

There can be littlo doubt that among the professions which women will shortly mako their own in this country is dentistry, says tlie "Queen." In the United States there aro many women dentists, but in Great Britain, owing to the professional difficulties which have lain in the way, only a few women have attempted to cam their living as dentists. [The Royal College of Surgeons has recontly determined that women shall no longer be debarred from taking either the M.R.U.S. or the L.D.S. qualifications. A committee of the Royal Collego of Surgeons has now under consideration a new by-law relating to the admission of women to the diplomas of F.R.O.S. and M.R.C.S., and to license in dental surgery. Consequently any woman who is inclined to choose this profession for her own might very wisely now be-' gin her training, and so be early in the field. It would not be difficult to find dentists with the highest qualifications who would train women in the mechanical work. The period of this training would bo two years, and the fee probably about £100. The pupil would aftorwards proceed to the Collego of Dental Surgeons for another two years, and this training would cost her £110. ' When fully trained, a woman dentist would be well advised to establish herself in London, and mqrc particularly near some of the 1 large hotels where American ladies and families stay, for it is specially on behalf of American children that women dentists aro required. In America children aro accustomed to bo treated by a lady, and they are often rather alarmed to find that in England they must submit themselves to a man. We ought to point out that dentistry is a profession only for highly-educated' young women, and that the pupil before'beginning technical training must have passed the London Matriculation or some, examination of an equivalent character. oiris of a different calibre are employed to a considerable extent by dentists in the mcchanical work, such as the adjustment of plates. Theso assistants are trained by the dentists under whom they work, and earn fair salaries, but do not rise to more than £100 a year.