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Four years ago, the American Den tal Association gave its seal of "recognition" to Procter & Gamble's fluoridated Crest toothpaste, and the $320 million dentifrice industry has not been the same since. Crest doubled its sales within a year, then passed Colgate Dental Cream, the longtime leader, to win the nation's No. 1 selling spot. The side effects of Crest's leap were consider able: a few fringe toothpastes were forced off the market, other brands' advertising budgets soared to keep up with Crest, and almost everybody in the business hurried back to the laboratory...
Every so often a dental patient reports that a tooth has turned into a radio receiver, that one of his fillings is acting like an old-fashioned crystal set. Now dentists have devised a way of reversing the process: they are outfitting teeth to do the transmitting...
...effort to learn what goes on inside the mouth when people chew, drink or swallow, Dr. Samuel Adams II, 28, and his associates at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Dental Dispensary, have been bugging the bridgework of volunteers with tiny radio transmitters fitted into dummy teeth. Crammed inside each electronic tooth are a transistor, an induction coil, two capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances...
...high quality of its food and service has even attracted Gentile guests, who are offered yarmulkes (skullcaps) to wear in the dining rooms. Finding money to build the Deborah was no problem; the millionaire Knoll brothers own a number of corporations in Venezuela, including a construction firm, a dental supply business, an export-import company and an office-furniture factory...
...much of the tooth seems to be inert that some dental surgeons hoped that a transplant would not set off rejection reactions. They thought it might be possible to graft teeth from one person to another in much the same way as the bloodless cornea of the eye can be grafted, and for essentially the same reasons. Some dentists at last week's meeting claimed successes in person-to-person transplants that have lasted from two to four years. But they had no X rays to show that the roots were still healthy. Soon, their colleagues predicted, the crowns...