Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last summer, when the Army decided not to look its gift horses in the mouth, bad teeth were the largest cause for rejecting drafted men (20.9% of rejected candidates). Now some 2,500,000 "dental cripples," whose teeth may unfit them for service at any time, are being drafted for the 11,000,000-man U.S. Army. Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser has a plan, published last fortnight in Pepper Committee hearings, for making all 2,500,000 dental fit within a year, for about $25 apiece. Estimated average needs per man: two bridges, two extractions, five inlays...
Pitfalls of Love. In Minneapolis, Dental Survey magazine reported that a Canadian soldier who fell ill was discovered to have swallowed his girl friend's false teeth...
Champ Champers. In Miami, Dr. Ralph Boos, delegate to the Florida East Coast Dental Society convention, announced his 1942-43 finding: the average man bites more than twice as hard as the average woman...
...medical students (including hospital internes and residents), dental students, and veterinary students enrolled in approved institutions and subject to Selective Service; and all pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-veterinary students who have completed one year of study in approved institutions...
...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...