SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 16 March 1912, Page 5

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY.

« THE NEW ZEALAND DEGREE. Appreciative references were made to the New Zealand School of Dentistry during tho annual dinner of the Auckland Dental Association on Wednesday night. Mr. C. H. Moses described tho scope of the work now being done by the school which is being conducted at Dunedin under Professor Pickerell. He dwelt at length upon the effect it was having upon tho ethics of the profession, by ensuring the proper qualification and education of ihoso who would enter the dental profession. In quoting the statistics of a year's work, he pointed out that of 4242 operations, 1154, or more than one-fourth, were fillings, an indication of the attention given to conservative work in the school. lie explained that the school is under the jurisdiction of the University Senate, which granted a degree in dentistry. To hold that degree was very different from the qualification of being a licentiate under the licenses granted at Home, and gave a dentist such a status that ho could register in England, and could practice almost anywhere in the world, and certainly anywhere in the British Dominions. The school was, in fact, the second in the world do be recognised by tho General Medical Council at Home.