4 THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1982
Women 6ri The Rise
In Dentistry
By He nrv Diivall
Amid the ; relaxing
music. dental care
literature and the whir of
high powered drills,
change is under way in
the nation's denial of
fices. A growing number
of women are becoming
demists in a traditionally
ma le -dom i n at ed pro fes -sion.
In 1977. 1,900 of I lit"
117, R90 dentists in the'
country, or nearly two
per cent, were women,
t according to American
Dental Association data.
? "inlay, the number of
emale dentists is
substantially risins;
because of an upsurue in
female eurollmenl in
dent ill schools.
ADA statistics for
19X1 -.how there are
4,227 women enrolled in
he 60 dental schools in
the United States, con
stituting 18.7 per cent of
the overall enrollment of -22.621.
In the preceding
year, women accounted
for 17 per cent of denial
school .enrollment.
'Dr. ' ' Jeanne ; C.
Sinkrord. dean of I he
Howard University Col
lege of Dentistry . in
Washington. D.C.,
remembers when female
enrollment was 1.2 per
cent in the 1950s when
whe entered dental
school. "Most U.S. den
tal schools at the time
had no women at all,"
she recalls.
Dr. Sink ford
represents the strides
women have made in
demist ry. She is believed
to be the first female
dean of a dental school
in the nation.
Howard Unvcrsily's
denial school has a'
higher percentage of
women students than
any other dental school
in the United Stales. Bas
ed on 1981-82. ADA
statistics on. the number
of women in dental
schools. Howard has a
female cnrollnient of .12
per cent, followed by the
University of Penn
sylvania with 23.6 per
cent and New York
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University with 19 per
cent. ;
Howard also has the
highest number for any
single dental school of
black Americans enroll
ed in dentistry 289
students in 1981-82.
Blacks constitute 4.5 per
cent 'of the total enroll
ment in the nation's den
tal schools.
The women's libera
tion movement helped to
open doors for women in
dentistry. Concurrently,
more funds became
available for all students
including women and ad
mission practices were
"liberalized" in the '70s.
says Dr. Sink ford.
One- major obstacle
which until recently con
fronted students seeking
to enter dental schools
was the "carving test."
which examined visual
motor skills. This
manual test, which in
volved carving an object
to scale, was intended to
analyze whether a pro
spective dental student
could perceive objects in
different. dimensions,
working with the hands
and mind.
Dr. Sinkford notes
that most women were at
a disadvantage in this
test because men were
traditionally exposed to
"shop skills." The carv
ing test, however, was
superceded in 1973 by
the Perceptual Motor
Ability Test (PMAT).
which is part of the Den
tal Admission Test. Dr.
Sinkford stresses that
this mcchanisrnjs a more
equitable way of predic
ting visual motor aptitude.-
The first female den
tist in the United Stales
was I.ucy Hobbs-Taylor.
who graduated from
Ohio College of Denial
Surgery in 1866.
Dr. Sinkford points
oiit that Howard
graduated a woman.
Mary Woolen, in the
denial school's first class
; in 1883. "Howard has
traditionally been one of
the few' U.S. denial
schools lo admit women
on an equal basis as
men," she emphasizes.
In 1949, New York
philanthropist and den
tist I ouise (. Kail be
ll neat bed a half-million
dollars lo How ard's den
ial school lo impoi vc the
duality instruction. Dr.
Sinkford was one of the
recipients of a Hall
fellowship for postdoc
toral dental studies.
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After gradual im? the
first in her class from
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Dr. Soft ford went on the
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native and mother of
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Or
.actively recruiting
women .for careers in
dentistry' since the 'Ms.
"The women we arc
recruiting are verv
(liialifieci," she savs.
"Their aptitude lest
scores and prcclental
grade point averages' are
cental tt those of 'the
male students that we ac:
cepi."
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Howard dental school,
encouraged bv a female
dentist regarding clcn
tisirv. is Romclta
Powell, a 22-vcai-olcl
junior and native of
tlanta. When Ms.
Powell completes dental
school, she. intends to
work with the. dentist
who has offered her
career opportunities and
guidance.
Howard University
this war graduated its
first woman in its oral'
suruertt program. Or.
Renee. McCoy-Collins.
Women continue to be
iinderrepicscnled in the
specialty areas of den
list ry.
U.S.
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vices reported to 1'on
grcss in 1980 that I here
are only six female oral
surgeons in the country.
"Dean Sinkford has
been unite an inspira
tion." Or. McCoy
Collins emphasizes.
'The dean has been a
perfect 'example 'of
women's ability in dentistry."
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