Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teeth. At London's St. Mary's Hospital, a group of dentists and a distinguished colleague, Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming, tried penicillin lozenges for mouth infections. In a number of cases, reported Dentist E. Wilfred Fish in the Journal of the American Dental Association, abscessed teeth and gums cleared up nicely; penicillin also was helpful in an operation in which two infected teeth were extracted and replanted in the same sockets...
...unfilled dental cavity is an open door to polio. So conclude Neurologist Hans Reese of the University of Wisconsin and Dentist John G. Frisch of Madison, Wis. in the latest issue of Dental Digest...
...warning dovetails neatly with the medical belief that tonsillectomies and tooth extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...
...HEALTH. By 1948 Britons will have complete medical, dental, specialist and hospital services under the National Health Service...
Venality, it must be added, extends to Americans too. The desire to grab and run is almost universal in Shanghai today and transcends racial and national lines; the faith that prompts long-term investments is lacking. An American dentist, who came to practice in Shanghai, sold his dental equipment for more profit than he could make in a few years of practice, and went home. A foreign businessman who bought a house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai...