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...Lamps of tomorrow will mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp...
...gingivitis, forerunner of pyorrhea, is no laughing matter. No toothpastes or mouthwashes will repair inflamed, bleeding gums, usually the result of illness, some vitamin deficiency or pregnancy. Fearsome is the name (desquamative gingivitis] for what happens when the outer layer of the gums begins to slough off. When bacteria invade the soft tissues, pyorrhea comes into...
Promptly (in some cases within 24 hours), their gums began to harden, and healthy new tissue began to form the outer keratin layer, forming "a coat of armor" against bacteria. "This improvement," said Dr. Ziskin last week, "was seen not only in cases which had been partially helped by other methods, but also in the stubborn cases which showed no evidences of healing under routine procedure." In some cases, treatment was carried on over a period of two or three months...
...mouth. Said he: "The amount of caries [decay] is less in mottled enamel areas than in normal areas. ..." Although fluorine makes ugly smiles, it preserves teeth "independently of mottled enamel." To the known factors causing tooth decay (too many starches and sweets, not enough vitamins, an abundance of mouth bacteria) he suggested that his colleagues add lack of fluorine. There is a possibility, he said, "of partially controlling caries through the communal water-supply...
...Benjamin Frank Miller of Chicago's Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic reported that fluorine killed the bacteria which breed in mouth acids (lactobacilli), cause tooth decay. In addition, said Dr. Joseph F. Volker of the University of Rochester, fluorine enters into direct chemical combination with the teeth, strengthens them against decay...