Bellingham Peter John
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA.
J Hist Dent. 2006 Winter;54(3):101-7.
Little has been written about peacetime humanitarian work in dentistry. In particular, few know the achievement of dentists who served with Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's medical mission in the early 1900s. These volunteers introduced dentistry to the impoverished coasts of Labrador and North Newfoundland, working under primitive conditions to meet an incredible need for dental care. This work constitutes an important chapter in the history of humanitarian dental service. As Dr. Grenfell himself noted, "the gospel of prosthetic and prophylactic dentistry in a distant, foreign country on a scale of this kind is entirely unique in the world's field of dentistry, so far as I can find".
关于和平时期牙科领域的人道主义工作，相关著述甚少。尤其是，鲜有人知晓20世纪初在威尔弗雷德·格伦费尔医生的医疗使团中服务的牙医们所取得的成就。这些志愿者将牙科医术带到了拉布拉多和纽芬兰北部的贫困海岸地区，在原始条件下工作，以满足人们对牙科护理令人难以置信的需求。这项工作构成了人道主义牙科服务历史上重要的一章。正如格伦费尔医生本人所指出的：“就我所知，在一个遥远的异国他乡，以这种规模开展修复和预防性牙科医术的传播，在世界牙科领域是独一无二的。”
