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Despite plans under consideration for revision of the Curriculum of the Harvard Dental School, a regular Freshman class will be enrolled next fall for four years of study under the present curriculum, Dean Leroy M. S. Miner announced today...
...Unauthorized and unofficial accounts of a new plan of dental education at Harvard have appeared," Dean Miner said, "and rumors have been spread about that Harvard was contemplating drastic changes in the curriculum of its Dental School, that would all but eliminate, in its present form, this seventy-year-old division of Harvard...
Among the false rumors arising was that the Dental School was to close its doors this fall...
...Benjamin Frank Miller of Chicago's Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic reported that fluorine killed the bacteria which breed in mouth acids (lactobacilli), cause tooth decay. In addition, said Dr. Joseph F. Volker of the University of Rochester, fluorine enters into direct chemical combination with the teeth, strengthens them against decay...
...Although the dentists at the meeting agreed that the time was near when they would use "controlled local application of fluorine to prevent dental caries," Dr. Basil Glover Bibby of the University of Rochester sounded a warning. Said he: "The use of fluorine in tooth powder or paste should not be considered, because it is unsafe. Fluorine is poisonous and dangerous if administered by untrained persons." He assured his colleagues that they need not sacrifice beauty for utility. Fluorine, he said, mottles only newly erupted second teeth. In proper doses, it will not pit permanent teeth if given after...