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PARTICIPANTS AT TllE RO1TERDAM MEETING Dr A K Adnms Dr R S Atkinson Dr B J Bamforth Dr J A Bennett Dr J H van Berkel Dr J Borlin Dr H Bohrer Dr T B Boulton Dr E C Bouvy-Bcrends Dr A Carregal Rano Dr I D Conacher Dr C F Damstrea Dr B Dworacek Dr U Erdmann Prof W Erdmann Dr N S Faithful1 Dr C A Fuge Dr E P Gibbs Dr M Goerig Dr P Goulden Dr M B Gouth Dr C Hall-Davies Dr G W Hamlin Dr I Hoffman Dr J M Horton Dr D D Howat Dr J Kesecioglu Dr E Kross Dr M Kus Prof J J de Lange Dr C Nnllios Jelle Bos Tudy Drenth Miso Dzoljic Eric Eijking Denise Haas Hannie Kesecioglu Marco Koenders Locnl Mccting Aidos Dr R E Mansfield Dr H Marland Dr J S Mather Dr E T Mathews Dr L Misuraca Dr A F Naylor Dr C Niemegeers Dr B Owen Dr A Padfield Dr R W Patterson Prof H Reinhold Dr A-M Rollin Dr H R Rollin Dr J Ruprecht Dr J Samarutel Dr H J Schenck Dr B H Smith Dr T G Smith Dr J Smits Prof J E Steinhaus Prof M K Sykes Dr T H Taylor Dr C )I Theunissen Dr A Tutuncu Dr M Valkenburg Dr Vazquez Barreiro Prof D Vermeulen Crnnch Dr C Weisser Dr C M White Dr M van Wijhe Dr D J Wilkinson Yvette Lie T Muetgeert Marco Obree Nies Verhagen Bianca Verstecg Larnine Visser
Professor D M E Vermeulen-Cranch (mterdam) During my professional life in the Netherlands I have been struck by cortai?~ differences in attitudes and practice between Britain and the Netiierlands. Dental anaesthesia Dutch anaesthesiolcgists, unlike those in the IJK until recently, have had no professianal connections with dentists. Also, general anae~thesia for purely dental procedures has always been considered unnecessary and even taboo in the Netherlands for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the stoic Calvinistic conservative character of the Dutch encouraqed them to accept pain or to be less sensitive to it and, srcondly, in the Netherlands in the first half of the 19th century, dentistry was carried out in the commmity by mstly Jewish, closed families. They trained each other in the tradition of itinerant dentists, accepted their rather lowly social status and mrking conditions, rarely souqht anything better and were not, or chose not to be, involved In the plitical and educational changes which were taking place about that time. They failed to give a definition or work description of dentistry, or to claim procedures and training proqrms for dentistry. There was a general belief that dentistry required nothing more than manrlal dexterity which could easily be acquired by those with a medical training. Because dentistry involved the human body it was considered that it should he carried out by those with a medical training. There was, in addition, a lack of interest in dentistry by doctors, who therefore remained ignorant of, and untrained in, the advances taking place in other countries. Finally, when nitrous oxide was used by the dentist Horace Wells, ether by lkxton and chloroform by Simpson, it made no Teat or lasting iqnct on doctors or dentists irl the Netherlands. They were not inspired to action and Eurther developments as John Snow and numerous others were. With a Ee!i exceptions, it was caution, theorising and possible alternatives to general anaesthesia which caught their attention. Leg'blation on dentistry A l3r.1 of 1923 offered hospital tr3ining to surqeons, lxlt not to dentists, !+lose &]cation and status then lagged behind that of stlr!.Teons. Surgeons performed the majority of tmth extractions, leaving to the dentists t9e sale of muth washes and powders, and the filling and filing of teeth before the fitting of artificial teeth. The dentists w2re therefore less often concerned with the pain caused by extract ions. In 1865 a lsrg was p3ssocl which stated that dentistry would in future he carried out only by doctors, because they were better able to deal with
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