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Dentist George Clarence Dreher of Newark, N. J. pondered the use of maggots for cleaning the root canal completely of dead pulp, ordinarily a difficult procedure. Too nice to experiment in a patient's mouth, Dentist Dreher got a freshly-pulled decayed1 front tooth-he reported last week in Dental Survey-and put a fat maggot to work on the decay. The maggot was too fat to get into the root canal...
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