Dental WAVES at Work
![Women being trained in dentistry Women being trained in dentistry](/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/navy-medical-art-of-the-abbott-collection/dental-waves-at-work/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1519936019286.jpg)
Their preliminary training is accomplished through work on mannequins. The WAVE in the foreground is demonstrating to a new trainee the process of cleaning teeth. The teeth of the mannequin have been coated with a hard wax to represent tartar deposits on human teeth. Later will come training in more intricate problems.
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