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Until last summer, when the Army decided not to look its gift horses in the mouth, bad teeth were the largest cause for rejecting drafted men (20.9% of rejected candidates). Now some 2,500,000 "dental cripples," whose teeth may unfit them for service at any time, are being drafted for the 11,000,000-man U.S. Army. Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser has a plan, published last fortnight in Pepper Committee hearings, for making all 2,500,000 dental fit within a year, for about $25 apiece. Estimated average needs per man: two bridges, two extractions, five inlays...
...Hyser believes that the Army Dental Corps, "organized not as a rehabilitation agency but rather to take care of routine dental work," can hardly do more than a patch-up job. His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day. Clinic personnel would include 75 dentists, 20 hygienists, six surgeons, four radiologists...
Pitfalls of Love. In Minneapolis, Dental Survey magazine reported that a Canadian soldier who fell ill was discovered to have swallowed his girl friend's false teeth...
Champ Champers. In Miami, Dr. Ralph Boos, delegate to the Florida East Coast Dental Society convention, announced his 1942-43 finding: the average man bites more than twice as hard as the average woman...
...medical students (including hospital internes and residents), dental students, and veterinary students enrolled in approved institutions and subject to Selective Service; and all pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-veterinary students who have completed one year of study in approved institutions...