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...only dentist in Nome, Alaska calls himself "the best dentist on Front Street and President and Secretary of the Nome Dental Society." He is tall, husky, pink-cheeked Dr. Maxwell Raymond Kennedy, 26. Last week he went home for a visit in Galesburg, Ill., telling his own success story of dental triumph among Nome's 1,500 prospectors, Eskimos, saloonkeepers, trappers and government officials. He also went home to get his teeth fixed-there is no other dentist within 560 miles of Nome...
...dental day began at 8 when Nome's telephone operator, named Jeff, called: "Come on now, Doc. You get up." Dr. Kennedy got to work at 9, shooing late hotel guests out of his waiting room. When a patient came in "who looked as though he had cleaned his teeth with his elbow," Dr. Kennedy told him about toothbrushes and not to come back for treatment until he had used one. The Doctor's hardest cases were the shattered mouths of saloon brawlers...
...smoke whenever they like, paste Petty girls on their machines if the curves inspire them, get popular jazz over the loudspeaker system, drink free coffee or nibble free candy bars. To top it off Host Jack hands everyone vitamin pills and anti-cold tablets daily, gives free medical and dental care, hands out modest bonuses with calendar-like regularity...
...Russians claim an astounding record for saving the lives of wounded men -only 1.5% exclusive of battle deaths, die of their wounds. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Navy's Surgeon General, told Northwestern University's medical and dental students about the U.S. record on Guadalcanal. It is even better, though on a smaller scale: less than 1% have died, compared to 7% in World War I. Biggest improvement is in abdominal wounds-5% deaths, compared to World...
Tooth decay is commonest in the North, but relatively quite rare in the South. This latitudinal dental mystery was revealed last week in the American Journal of Public Health, by Dentist Bion R. East of Columbia University. Like most other dentists, Dr. East readily admits that nobody knows the basic cause of tooth decay, hence his geographic phenomenon contradicts no other widely held medical beliefs on tooth decay...