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Fortnight ago the New York City branches of the American Dental Association announced that Dr. Hartman would soon tell all at a big meeting in a hotel. The effect of that announcement on dentists and people who needed their teeth fixed made Editor Dr. Charles Raymond Wells of the Bulletin of the Second District Dental Society snort: "The premature publicity does not pay for the many explanations to our patients of why we haven't the desensitizer yet, neither does it prove a good argument in convincing patients to have their dental work done now. Many patients have purposely...
Preventing the baby from having to have dental plates...
...last week's climactic moment Dr. Hartman, a big, handsome scholar, was confronted by 3,000 dentists and scouts for dental supply houses. Them he vexed by what they considered a needless description of a tooth's construction: hard, nerveless enamel over dentine over pulp. The pulp contains the tooth's nerve. The dentine contains a fatty substance called lipoid which Dr. Hartman believes transmits pain to the nerve. By temporarily disconnecting the lipoid from the nerve he believes that he interrupts transmission of pain during drilling in the dentine. Following this theory, he devised a solution...
...haste and fury with which dentists began to use Hartman's Solution at the insistent demand of their patients made their early reports questionable. Many reported success in every case. Others scoffed. Others withheld judgment. Results of tests at the Murray and Leonie Guggenheim Dental Clinic reflected general experience. According to Director John Oppie McCall results on five children were "good," on three "fair," on two "not good." Some private patients made news by claiming that they got no relief whatever from Hartman's Solution. Two possible explanations: 1) compounds prepared by volume instead of weight; 2) incorrect...
...reading over President Conant's report, no one could fail to be impressed by the number and variety of ideas put forth and carried through in the first years of his administration. National Scholarships, Roving Professorships, Tercentenary Funds, Scholarships for Graduate Schools, the remodelling of the Dental School, the Graduate School for Public Administration, and the Athletic Endowment program pass in dazzling succession through our minds. All these plans of change and addition shine with a resplendent virtue; all are desirable, even necessary, reforms. But they all likewise have one thing in common: they require money, and more money...