Word: dentalized
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...child runs across a suburban lawn, arms outspread, beaming broadly and shouting, "Look, Mom--no cavities!" That sales pitch, offered when fluoridated toothpastes were introduced, hardly seemed credible. Few American children, nurtured as they were (and still are) on candy bars and other sweets, returned from a dental checkup in triumph. In fact, it was not unusual for a child to have five, six or seven cavities at a time, and just as many the following year. Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold...
...from $192 million in 1980 to $112 million last year. But in spite of pale cosmetic revenues, the company has become a takeover candidate because of its booming health-care business. More than half of Revlon's sales now come from such unglamorous products as Tums antacids and Orafix dental adhesive...
Black Leader Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice...
...Frank J. Morales, an orthodontist in Matamoros, has a thriving dental practice with roughly 40% of his patients from the U.S. Married to an American, he has houses in both Matamoros and Brownsville, and estimates that half his affluent neighbors in El Jardin (the Garden) section of Matamoros have second homes in either Brownsville or the nearby Texas resort of South Padre Island...
...Bosserts, who claimed to have sheltered the fugitive, and those of the Mengele family in West Germany, which apparently sent both funds and emissaries to the Nazi doctor, all the while concealing a trove of revealing photographs and documents. Because the fugitive apparently had left no recent dental records, forensic investigators admitted they could never declare with 100% certainty that the remains they had examined were those of Mengele...