Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their slick technique of drilling and filling, dentists have little more knowledge of the causes of tooth decay than they had 100 years ago. Dental caries (tooth decay) is the most prevalent disease in the U. S., attacks more than 95% of the population...
...high-minded Dentists Chapin Aaron Harris and Horace Henry Hayden opened the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first in the world. In the freshman class were five students, their only qualifications reading & writing, tough biceps. After a four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...
...Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...
Leroy M. S. Miner, Professor of Oral Clinical Surgery and dean of the Dental School, will be inducted as President of the American Association of Dental Schools tomorrow at its annual meeting in Philadelphia. Professor Miner has been dean of the Dental School since 1924, and is a former president of the American Dental Association...
...will represent Harvard at the National Dental Centenary Celebration in Baltimore next week. This celebration is commemorating the establishment of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first dental school in the country...