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...Doctors must begin to recognize racial differences when planning corrective dental therapy," claims Dr. Peter T. Kai-jen Yen, assistant clinical professor of Orthodontics at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...
...assured him that he had nothing to worry about. But I was worried, He-had not taken it seriously enough to eat a training meal, but could he take the match seriously enough to play without his artificial dental plate? That was going to be the psyche factor...
Admittedly, fluoridation of water is not the whole answer to dental health. The fluorides protect the sides of the teeth more than the grinding surfaces of molars, which have tiny fissures in them where decay often begins, especially in adolescents. For these surfaces, Dr. Michael Buonocore of the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester has devised a technique of coating with plastic film. Fluoridated toothpastes have won the approval of the American Dental Association (though not of all individual dentists) as a useful adjunct to water fluoridation. Another possibility, on which the National Institute of Dental Research is working...
...Dental Comparison. Wishful thinking may well account for some of the impressive results that N.A. claims. The organization defines the neurotic as "any person whose emotions interfere with his functioning in any way to any degree whatsoever as recognized by him" -a definition unscientific enough to horrify formal psychotherapists. Hence the program tends to attract people who want to believe that emotional problems are as correctable as a toothache-a comparison frequently drawn by N.A. members. "You have to keep going back to the dentist if you want to take good care of your teeth," says Grover. No one "graduates...
Little Respite. Courtenay, whose previous film roles include the young revolutionary in Doctor Zhivago, prepared to play Ivan by having the crowns of two teeth removed, leaving only gold stumps. For a man who has had no dental attention for at least eight years, "anything less would look phony," he explains. He also dieted 7 lbs. from his 145-lb. frame. "You can't really act in this." Before one scene in which Ivan eats, Courtenay starved himself a day so that he could "concentrate on-camera as if it really were my only food for a long time...