Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires' Puerto Nuevo, and the longshoremen went to work on her. For the riches in her hold, her captain carried 1,700 manifests. His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin...
...Columbia University's dental college, Dentist Daniel Ziskin has decided that concentrated lemon and grapefruit juice, both highly acid, do indeed soften tooth enamel. (Orange juice, less acid, seems to be safe.) But acid is not the only villain. The real damage is done by brushing acid-softened teeth with a stiff brush or gritty dentifrices. If not followed by too vigorous brushing, drinking diluted citrus juices once a day is perfectly all right, says Ziskin...
...dental experts last week spoke an aching mouthful of facts and theories that all added up to one sad conclusion: there's no future in teeth...
These puzzling findings were reported in the Journal of the American Dental Association by four researchers who have been trying to find out why teeth go bad. Does a substandard diet prevent decay? Perhaps it does. The Birmingham men would not say, but they were sure that underfeeding does not cause decay...
Forget the Milk. Another authority, Dr. Philip Jay, director of the University of Michigan's Dental Caries Research Laboratory, cited a study of 300 starving natives of India. Most had excellent teeth (40% had no cavities; 95% of the well-fed U.S. population has cavities). Dentist Jay also drilled deep into another pair of common beliefs: 1) that milk is good for adults' teeth because it provides them with calcium; and 2) that a pregnant woman is vulnerable to tooth decay. Not so, says Jay: after tooth enamel is formed (in childhood), nothing can be done either...