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Vehemently protesting when told that a two months' wait must ensue before his name reaches the top of the list for dental overhauling, many a student has left the Hygiene Building in disgust. An eight weeks delay while awaiting replacement of a lost filling, drilling-out of a cavity, or a cleaning job seems a long, long time. Of course, really important emergency work of any sort gets immediate treatment, but the routine repair cases find themselves at the bottom of an interminable column of names. And, though perhaps to a lesser extent, medical care of a less-than-immediate...
...before hysterical cries of inefficiency and indifference are bandied about, a closer glimpse at the picture might be appropriate. Survey of the dental situation in the Boston area would show that the University's problem is merely a symptom of a general trend. Throughout New England, throughout the entire nation, the tale of woe seems to be the same--overworked dentists and doctors, overcrowded hospitals, everywhere besieged by long waiting lines...
...final comment on the present-day college-girl attitude came from a young woman to whom the military shot-in-the-arm, the monthly medical inspection, and dental check were practically habit. Revealing that she was perhaps too revealing during the freshman physical examination, she said, "That sheet was a little unwieldly, and gosh, I had the feeling I was corrupting those kids...
...temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...dentists at the Navy's Medical Research Institute made a surprising finding: though the North has many more dentists, Southerners have much better teeth. Commander Carl A. Schlack and Lieut. James E. Birren extracted this discovery from a study of dental records of 69,584 enlisted men. As measured by the number of cavities and fillings per man, New Englanders had by far the nation's poorest teeth, Southwesterners the best...