2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 3

An International Dental Exhibition at the Imperial Institute was opened

on Monday. Various new methods of avoiding pain (always the essential point to us, the general public) are exhibited—notably, a new French invention for complete local anaesthesia and another for prolonged general anaesthesia.. But more important is the growing recognition of dentistry as an extremely important and highly specialized branch of medical science, for the neglect of which in the past we have paid dearly indeed. More and more diseases are being traced to oral sepsis, end the recognition of the dentist as one of the most important of the workers against human illness may be looked upon as a real advance.