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...generally known," said L. M. S. Miner, dean of the Dental School, in a Lowell lecture last night, "that dental disease is intimately associated with disease in the body as a whole, but more recently, abundant evidence has been discovered to show the connection between dental disease and disorders of the mind...
...private practice," Miner said, "many nervous conditions have responded favorably to the removal of dental disease. Not long ago a young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...
...orthodontist who straightens the teeth and stimulates the jaws to proper development, is perhaps the only modern scientist who is definitely combatting the adverse evolutionary tendency of the human species," said E. A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, in an address to students of the Dental School yesterday...
...expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage now where we have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. Eskimos are almost the only human race in whom dental degeneration is not manifest...
...Harvard Dental School it is hoped that an enlargement of its plant and endowment will permit the establishment of a research department dealing with problems of human dental evolution...