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After gazing into many a U.S. mouth, the American Dental Association estimates that the country is afflicted with one billion unfilled cavities, five per head. It adds that 26 million Americans have lost all their teeth, while 80% of those over the age of 15 have some form of periodontal disease attacking the tissues that support the teeth. Worse, dental problems are proliferating faster than dentists can treat them...
Obviously, the American mouth is a disaster area. Dentists are quick to blame public indifference, and with some reason. If Americans used toothbrushes and gum stimulators properly, dental diseases could be sharply reduced. But as Tufts University's Dr. Irving Glickman told the Fourth Annual Workshop on Preventive Dentistry in Washington last week: "The public is apathetic, but our apathy makes the public's look small." Adds Harvard Orthodontist Herbert Wells: "Except for the introduction of high-speed drills, nothing much has happened to dental technology since...
...grants--some totaling as much as $70,000 apiece--were made to the Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...
...Winthrop chemists, Dr. Sydney Archer and Dr. Noel Albertson, the drug has the chemical name pentazocine and is trade-named Talwin. In six years, it has been tested on 12,000 patients and has relieved severe pain associated with surgery, injuries, cancer, childbirth, bone diseases arthritis and dental conditions. The pa- tients obtained about as much relief a they would have from morphine, but did not require increasing doses. Th side effects, such as nausea and dizziness, were usually mild. Government agencies are not yet willing to say flatly that pentazocine is nonaddicting, but they say it does not "support...
...most sweeping change in the new statute -- elimination of mass graduate school deferments -- will not go into effect until next year. In the interim, the National Security Council will advise the President whether or not ary non-medical-dental deferments should be given. If more deferments are granted, they are expected to be restricted to scientists or engineers...