Dental Education Today

This book, which describes the present status of dental education in the United States, is based on the survey of dental schools conducted in 1942-1943 by the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association. First, however, it presents a historical review of the establishment and development of dental schools as well as the early attempts at standardization in this field. Prior to 1840, when the first dental school was established in the United States, the method of training was mainly preceptorial in type. In the period 1840 to 1884, twenty-nine dental schools were organized, all but eight of which have survived to the present time either under the original control or through mergers or amalgamation with other institutions. By 1895, there were forty-four dental schools in existence, while the peak of fifty-seven was reached in 1900. Twenty years later the number of schools had been reduced to forty-six,