Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dental Cripples...
...article [on "dental cripples"] in TIME [Feb. 22] was a swell job. It "digested" that paper of mine in great shape...
...Hyser believes that the Army Dental Corps, "organized not as a rehabilitation agency but rather to take care of routine dental work," can hardly do more than a patch-up job. His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day. Clinic personnel would include 75 dentists, 20 hygienists, six surgeons, four radiologists...
...inlays an hour; 2) the prosthetic (tooth replacement) battery of eight, making ten bridges an hour; 3) the synthetic filling battery of ten, making 24 fillings an hour. Men with toothless jaws would need special care, but nearly all others, according to Dr. Hyser could be handled on this dental assembly line in bucket-brigade fashion...
...merely in order to get him into military service." His idea is no sudden inspiration. For ten years he has worked on plans to get dentistry to everybody. Under present conditions only 20% of U.S. citizens ever see a dentist and only 5% can be classed as having excellent dental care. Dr. Hyser says that his plan "for over a year has been passed around in Washington, been pronounced pertinent and practicable by the authorities-and left in the limbo of forgotten things...