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...proclamation of the American Dental Association, February began with Children's Dental Health Week. It was the 25th anniversary of the world's first test, in Grand Rapids, of an attempt to fluoridate water supplies so that children would need fewer fillings-and fewer extractions. The Grand Rapids program was soon followed by a similar test in Newburgh, N.Y. The results were checked against the dental decay rate of children in comparable cities without fluoridation: Muskegon, Mich., and Kingston...
...committee said that in 1972-1973, each school should receive $400 for every Massachusetts student studying for an associate degree, $1000 for each Bachelor's, $800 for each Master's, $1200 for each professional, $3100 for each Ph. D., and $4200 for each medical or dental candidate...
First step is putting the material together and tying it tightly in variations of five basic shapes, known as rosettes, bunches, gathers, pleats and marblings. String or dental floss can be used to tie it, but elastic is best, as it is not permeated by the dye and can be easily snipped free. The fabric is then immersed in the simmering (not boiling) dye solution and kept there for a length of time that varies with the material; cotton, for instance, soaks up the dye slowly, while silk takes it quickly. Next, the fabric is rinsed in cold water...
Enmeshed in Tape. Through 1969, Wyoming was the only state offering nothing beyond minimum benefits and only to welfare families. Forty states had operating plans offering additional services such as dental care, prescription drugs, home health care, eyeglasses, clinic services and a variety of diagnostic services. No two states had all the same benefits for the same type of people. In 22 states coverage had been extended beyond the welfare population to the stratum classed as the "medically needy" -those who can subsist only if they have no doctors' or hospital bills...
MEDICAL CARE AND PHARMACEUTICALS. In the year's first ten months, the price of medical care-doctors' bills, hospital services and drugs-rose by 5%. In Boston, a hospital bed could cost $85 a day, $10 more than last year, and the price of dental care advanced from $6 or $7 per filling a year ago to $9 to $10 today. Even aspirins were up, from 89? to 98? per 100 tablets. A mouthwash named Binaca cost 29? when it was introduced by a Swiss company five years ago; it has since been taken over...