PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE DENTAL CURRICULUM*
William W. Stiles M.D., M.P.H.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this authorWillard C. Cleming D.D.S.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this authorLloyd F. Richards D.D.S., M.P.H.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this authorWilliam W. Stiles M.D., M.P.H.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this authorWillard C. Cleming D.D.S.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this authorLloyd F. Richards D.D.S., M.P.H.
**Respectively: Associate Professor of Public Health, University of California, Dean of the College of Dentistry, University of California. Chief, Division of Dental Health, California State Department of Public Health. Lecturer, Physicians and Surgeons School of Dentistry, San Francisco, and School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Search for more papers by this author*Originally published in the Journal of Dental Education, May 1956. Reprinted by kind permission of the authors and the Journal Editor, Dr. Charles W. Craig.

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