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TANULMÁNYOK / ARTICLES - Huszár György: Balogh Károly professzor (1895—1973) életútja és iskolája. Születésének centenáriumára. Magyar és angol nyelven
divisions, outpatient clinics, etc.). Balogh accomplished this with the help of his staff (and later with help from some of his former trainees). Balogh had luck with the selection of his co-workers, but it was also to his advantage that he had a choice of excellent specialists. The new School of Dental Sciences had no textbooks. At Balogh's initiative, this shortage was first overcome with multiple syllabi written by the lecturers, later edited, enlarged and republished yearly. These were followed by printed textbooks, whose authors were mostly the lecturers themselves. After a few years almost all courses had regular textbooks. It is worth noting that these books are still consulted by practicing dentists. Among these textbooks is Oral Surgery, written by Balogh with three coauthors, Ferenc Skaloud, István Varga, and Béla Berényi; this book saw four editions and was also translated into German. (53) Other textbooks that definitely deserve mention are: Conservative Dentistry (P. Adler, E. Záray), Pathology for Dentists (S. Boros), Radiology in Dentistry (K. Ferenczy), Odontotechnics (I. Földvári), Technique of Reparative Dentistry (I. Földvári, G. Huszár), Orthodontics (L. Nagy, R. Rehák), Oral Diseases (L. Sugár) and Pediatric Dentistry (P. Tóth). In 1955 Balogh became the first dean of the new School of Dental Sciences; he was dean for nine years (42). The first students graduated September 9, 1955; these ten students began out as medical students but after their third year, in 1952, switched over to the School of Dental Sciences so that by 1955 they graduated as dentists. Incidentally, these graduates did not receive the title of Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.), but received the diploma of a dentist, a slavish copy by the Soviet system under the dictatorship of Mátyás Rákosi. Only a few years later, after the fall of Rákosi, were they accorded the scientific degree of D.M.D. The School of Dental Sciences opened four new departments with outpatient clinics in 1960. The Stomatologic Clinic became the Department of Oral Surgery under Balogh's chairmanship. The chairmen of the other departments (László Molnár, István Varga and Sándor Boros) started under the supportive direction and sometimes protective wings of Dean Balogh. In addition to the textbooks Balogh and his co-workers wrote several significant monographs. In 1962, they published Gerostomatologie (in German), co-authored by Balogh, László Molnár, Dénes Schranz and György Huszár (18). According to a contemporary book review, (65) this was the first monograph in the world literature on this topic. Incorporated in it were the results of the authors' research of many years, based on the examination of more than 1500 individuals between 60 and 104 years of age. The fact that it was published in German, provided the monograph great publicity, reviews of it appeared worldwide and it has been cited to this day. Another groundbreaking book by Balogh, co-authored with Kornél Lelkes, was The Tongue (19); according to one reviewer (46) it was not only pioneering, but also transcended the boundaries of stomatology, written 'after decades of studying the tongue and its abnormalities". This monograph presented the diseases of the tongue according to clinicopathologic classification. A monograph written with György Huszár and László Sugár was Prevention of Dental and Oral Diseases (20) which a reviewer hailed as "filling a gap". (24) Indeed, no book had been published before on this topic in Hungary. Balogh gave a detailed review of his and his co-workers' research in two publications entitled Our results in experimental caries research (15) and Ten years of dental education and scientific investigation. (16) These two publications are a great help to the historian in sketching Balogh's portrait as an investigator and in reviewing the scientific activity of his school . Balogh did most of his research on dental caries in the biochemistry laboratory of
