Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing power on to another. Industrial researchers are using Flory's discoveries to develop fibers that may prove to have three times the strength of nylon but only a fraction of its weight. Flory, at Stanford since 1961, is currently studying the polymers in living organisms. Because skin, bone and muscle fibers are made up of long-chain molecules, his work could conceivably lead to the day when man will be able to simulate them in laboratories...
YALE-CORNELL--Anybody who saw last week's game at Soldiers' Field is aware that Cornell has an immensely talented football team. Emotionally, though, the outcome of the contest may have been a real killer. Don Fanelli is out with a bone chip in his knee, so Yale should prove to be a little too strong Yale 29, Cornell...
...parts of the human skeleton are more subject to wear than the mandible, or lower jawbone. Aging alone can cause the bone to atrophy, or waste away. Chewing, mainly by those wearing dentures, can greatly accelerate the loss. For years doctors have dealt with mandibular atrophy-and with providing a better anchorage for false teeth -by painful and time-consuming bone and skin grafts. Now a Detroit oral surgeon may have found a better way. At a meeting of the American Society of Oral Surgeons in Las Vegas tins week, Dr. Irwin A. Small of Sinai Hospital of Detroit reported...
Small's invention, called the mandibular staple, is a lightweight titanium bar with two long, threaded pins and up to seven shorter ones (see diagram). It is attached to the dense bone on the underside of the jaw where its short pins help hold it in place. The long pins pass through the mandible and protrude through the gum into the mouth. There they serve as abutments to winch a dental bridge can be fastened...
Hammer Blows. Installing the mandibular staple is easier than bone grafting, winch can take as long as six weeks. In a 90-minute operation, Small makes an incision in the crease under the cinn. Then he drills a series of holes in the bone. He next positions the staple and hammers it neatly into place. Most patients require only aspirin afterward, feel comfortable witinn 48 hours, and can begin eating with their solidly anchored dentures witinn five days...