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Dean Black's own methods in preventive dentistry are unique. When he reorganized the research department in Northwestern University's Dental School, he took on a metallurgist, two chemists, a pathologist, a physiologist and an anatomist. Ablest of these is pipe-smoking Pathologist Edward Howard Hatton, now the department's director, specialist in focal infection...
...care on the adult mouth. . . . With proper care starting in early childhood, before the first molars appear, there is no reason why every person should not have most of his teeth at the age of three-score-&-ten." In the past 50 years, said Dr. Black, the U. S. dental profession has spent $50,000,000 to find out the causes of tooth troubles. The next 50 years and $50,000,000 should go to preventing them...
Diet. Dr. Frederick Bogue Noyes, 60, of Chicago thought that heredity probably has more to do with tooth health than has diet. Immunity and susceptibility to dental caries (decay) have been traced through four human generations. But most dentists agreed last week that diet is of prime importance, especially in childhood. They were interested in the report of University of Chicago's Biochemist Milton Hanke on a three-year experiment at Mooseheart (Ill.) Orphanage. He found that large amounts of orange juice (at least eight ounces per day) tended to decrease tooth decay by one half. Dr. Henry Aria...
...Costs of Medical Care . (TIME, Dec. 5. 1932), was a convention bugbear. From The Hague had come Dr. F. L. Nord to warn that socialized dentistry in Europe has resulted in lower fees for dentists, friction between them and bureaucrats. Dr. A. E. Rowlett, president of the British Dental Association, sent a proxy to read a paper urging U. S. dentists to accept the inevitable, take control of socialization before it is wrested from their hands. His proxy was Britain's first woman dentist, Mrs. Lillian Lindsay, 62. (In Britain dentists rate no title of "Dr.") Neat, cameo-faced...
President-elect- Named president-elect of the American Dental Association was Dr. Frank Munroe Casto, 58, genial Cleveland teeth-straightening specialist. A 4-handicap golfer who averages 80 on his home course, has shot a 70 and made two holes-in-one, he has just finished eight years as president of the American Dental Golf Association. Dr. Casto will take his new office at next year's convention in St. Paul...