A generation of dental services for children: change and similarity.

Changes in dentistry, and pediatric dentistry in particular, are chronicled in this report, with a description of the state of the profession in 1950 compared and contrasted with the environment that exists as we enter the 1990s. George Teuscher, ASDC's Journal editor, has overseen and analyzed these changes and similarities for the profession for more than twenty years. Despite vicissitudes of change throughout the profession for a generation, there are capable, highly trained and motivated professionals providing needed health services to society's youth today. The economic picture forecasts an improving return for these practitioners tomorrow.