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...Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly recognizable, so comfortably life-sized and so frequently good for a laugh that, regardless of bank balances or growing pains or matrimonial bumps, things somehow look rather cozy...
...kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window. There are everywhere fears, self-doubts, deep-hidden voids; something gnaws at the chatterbox sister, drills against the dentist's heart, suddenly blows up in an adolescent...
...before (determined by the pins and coordinates and another X ray as a double check), the four-part head of the quartz-crystal, ultrasound irradiator was lowered into the pan. While the patient remained fully conscious, no more distressed than he would have been in a dentist's chair, and talked occasionally, Dr. Meyers gave the 'signal and a technician pressed a button. Ultrasound, at a frequency of 980,000 cycles per second, shot through intervening brain tissues but not in sufficient intensity to damage them. The four beams came to a sharp focus at the exact part...
...misleading. I refer to your statement that "Only those students with minor dental problems are taken." This policy does actually apply to routine restorative dentistry (fillings). We feel we can do more good by referring one student with a long program of restorative dentistry to an outside dentist whom we know and then taking three short restorative cases in the clinic in his stead, than we would if we were to take the long case in the clinic and then refer the three short cases outside. This plan cuts down the number of outside referrals: the number...
...hygienist, and a roentgenologist. At the beginning of the year the Clinic can accept all comers, but a few weeks later only those students with minor dental problems are taken. The rest are told to look elsewhere for help. The average student is hesitant to trust a strange dentist in a foreign city and tends to postpone his dental work indefinitely...