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...Dental. The average dental X ray now delivers 5 r., but this is only to the jaw: the "scatter" radiation reaching the gonads from this is a mere .005 r. in a man and .001 r. in a woman. It would thus take 2,000 X rays to deliver a presumably damaging 10 r. to a man's gonads. Even so, notes the Journal of the American Dental Association, the currently used 5-r. doses are unnecessary. In the same issue, Radiologist Lewis E. Etter of Pittsburgh tells dentists how (by using higher voltages, better filters, faster films, shorter...
...Dental Powder. In Paris, after he fell asleep in his dentist's waiting room, Amedee Picart awoke to find that the dentist had locked up and gone off on vacation, was forced to call police to let him out of the office...
...take its share of abuse. "If you can't get into college," local wags would say, "you can always go to Fairleigh Dickinson." But nearby industries continued to give Sammartino support, and his ten-acre campus flourished. He added a two-year nursing course, a school of dental hygiene, courses in hotel and restaurant management. In 1954 he took over the dying (150 students) Bergen Junior College in nearby Teaneck, included both campuses in the single full-fledged four-year college. He persuaded a steady stream of celebrities-e.g., Ralph Bunche, Madame Pandit, Perle Mesta, Gloria Swanson...
...allowed to the average individual up to 30 years, about 3 to 4 r, the committee was shocked to discover, is being currently expended on medical ", and dental X rays, which have the same effect as gamma rays from radioactive sources. A dental X ray may give .005 r to the gonads, and general fluoroscopic examinations may give 2 r or more. The committee suggests that doctors and dentists should go easy with X rays. Patients who read the committee's report (especially those who intend to have more children) will surely think twice before they permit prolonged...
...following degrees will be awarded in the graduate schools: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 416; Education, 114; Design, 55; Business Administration, 587; Public Administration, 42; Medicine, 150; Dental Medicine, 13; Public Health, 68; Law, 503; and Divinity...