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While cancer of the lung has become much more prevalent in recent years, cancer of the mouth has not. Medical researchers have been puzzled by this, since cancer-causing agents, e.g., tobacco tar, reach the lungs through the mouth. In the Journal of the American Dental Association, investigators offer two tentative explanations: saliva has a protective effect, though whether this is brought about simply by washing away the cancer agent or by combating it chemically is not known; the tissues of the mouth are so constructed as to constitute a kind of "physiological barrier" against the entry of cancer agents...
...committee summoned General Zwicker back from Japan to defend himself on charges made by his old antagonist at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized the New York Times: "The action is only the most recent indication of the contempt in which one Joseph...
Among dentists whose patients had trouble enunciating "s," or "t," or "th," there used to be a standard joke: "What we need is English-speaking dentures." In the March Journal of the American Dental Association. Dentist Howard E. Kessler of Cleveland reports that the jokesters were right. It is much harder to make dentures for English-speaking patients than for those with another mother tongue...
Riedar Sognnaes, professor of Oral Pathology and Associate Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, will become President of the International Association for Dental Research on March 23, in Atlantic City...
Primary purposes of the corporation are to solicit and receive contributions from trust funds or unrestricted grants, and to give these toward the "general support or specific undertakings" of the Medical and Dental Schools, and the School of Public Health. It will also aid the seven hospitals and cooperate with others aiding "the purposes of the corporation...