Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settle scary rumors that fluorides added to drinking water (to protect the teeth of the young from decay) may have harmful effects, the U.S. Public Health Service compared death rates and causes in cities with and without fluorides in their water. The upshot: no difference...
Brighter Smiles. A new toothpaste containing the antibiotic tyrothricin is being test-marketed by Pepsodent. The toothpaste, called Shield, claims to retard tooth decay. Prices: about...
...Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the Health School, said in the Boston Herald Monday that the "vast majority" of the Health and Dental faculty members favor fluoridation "as the best way at present to reduce by about half the incidence of dental decay." Stare said last night that Williams is practically the only Health School man opposing fluoridation, while 30 or 40 doctors there favor...
...make a definitive prediction as to where the country's sex-obsession would lead. He did say, however, that, on the basis of historical induction; "in general the periods of sexual anarchy in great cultures come shortly before decay." This is true whether the decay proved to be temporary or irretrievable...
...These discoveries," Sognnaes states make clearer what is involved in the decay of a tooth. The micro-organisms that are believed to cause decay. . . are much wider than the individual crystal and organic units that make up the enamel. Hence, before a micro-organism can invade the enamel, both the organic and the inorganic matter (or the bond between the two) must be destroyed or weakened in some...