Word: dentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to meet an increasing demand for dental officers in departments of public health, the Dental School has organized a new graduate field of study in "Public Health Dentistry," Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Dental School, said yesterday in his annual report...
State Board of Dental Examiners
...Eskimos, those scientifically invaluable little people, have long been pointed to as having fine teeth simply because they shunned the mushy diet of our milk-toast civilization. Last week Columbia University Bacteriologist Theodor Rosebury, who has been to Alaska himself, disputed this standard theory of dental decay. According to his investigations, reported at a medico-dental session of the Greater New York Dental Meeting, previous theorists had been drawing the wrong conclusions from Eskimos...
Thus an important cause of dental caries, concluded Dr. Rosebury, is not mushy, refined foods but "certain hard, compact, carbohydrate-rich foods" which become forced into the crevices of the teeth and remain there as breeding grounds for bacteria...
...Dental School; Frank F. Bliss, Cranston, Rhode Island, assistant in Roentgenology...