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...second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day. Results: 1) all the rats in Group I had large cavities; 2) the rats in Group II "showed a 70% reduction in dental decay"; 3) 13 of the rats in Group II had no cavities. The reduction was "not mainly in the size of the cavities, but in the number of lesions." Dr. Finn will soon use his fluoride solution to bathe the teeth of children in a Rochester orphan asylum...
...most Chinese, the oral cavity of the late Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet, puppet-reject, warlord extraordinary, was a wonder. It contained the tongue of a fox, and many teeth of gold. When he died last week, the cause was announced by the Japanese as a bad dental abscess; but two days later Peking heard a story which made it sound more like bad judgment...
...swill-grubbing beast has a dirtier mouth than man. Such is the humiliating opinion offered in last week's Journal of the American Dental Association by the University of Pennsylvania's Dentist Leonard Rosenthal and colleagues. They based their opinion on extensive researches, mostly at Philadelphia's zoo. They examined the saliva of one hippopotamus, two lions, one baboon, two elephants, one rhinoceros, 28 pigs, two horses, two chimpanzees, 50 dogs, eight cats...
Died. Murry Guggenheim, 81, senior member and financial brains of the Manhattan firm of Guggenheim Bros.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His outstanding philanthropy: the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, providing training for dental hygienists, establishing free dental clinics for poor New York children...
Fred W. Morse, Jr. '24, assistant professor of Oral Medicine, replaces Ames I. Hadley, clinical professor of Operative Chemistry, on the Dental School Administrative Board...