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...number of years a storm has been raging over Stillman Infirmary, during which much justifiable criticism has been levelled at the inadequacy of its facilities, Sheltered from the blast because of the greater importance of its medical elder brother, the Harvard Dental Clinic has escaped much of the criticism; but actually the need for better dental facilities--while on a smaller scale--is even more urgent...
Housed in four tiny rooms high in the Hygiene Building, the Clinic annually ministers to more than a thousand students. Not only because of the skill of the Dental School men who compose the staff, but also because of the reasonable prices, the Clinic has become popular. But the unfortunate fact is that since it is forced to operate with a skeleton staff and equipment, only about one-half of the students who apply for appointments can be treated. Last year more than a thousand men were turned away,--referred to dentists practicing in the Square, where rates are considerably...
Last week, Dentist C. W. Messinger of Houghton, Mich, told members of the Chicago Dental Society that he had streamlined the ancient practice of tooth replacement and that now it did work. First he extracts an abscessed tooth, and removes the jaw abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger...
Although Chicago dentists enthusiastically applauded Dr. Messinger, dentists in Manhattan who soon got wind of the performance roundly denounced it. "Tooth replantation is an archaic, long-abandoned dangerous practice," said the Greater New York Bureau for Dental Information, official spokesman for Manhattan members of the American Dental Association. A replanted tooth is a foreign body, the Bureau warned. Even if sterilized, and even if it stays put, it may cause infection...
...Frederick Waite, Western Reserve professor of histology and embryology, declared after much study that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist...