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What is so traumatic about the initial dental experiences? I am the mother of five eminently 'normal' children, and I consider trips to the dentist the least of my worries. Unless the child is a budding neurotic, he is not going to object to a man with a friendly face who only wants to look into his mouth...
...frightened, hysterical patient, for example, the poker-faced pedodontist offers no sympathy, only a businesslike proposal: "Today we're going to look at your teeth, and then you're going home." When the unbelieving child opens his mouth to cry, the dentist quickly says, "Good. We saw your teeth. Now go home." Bills for such "behavior orientation" sessions range from $5 to $25, but few parents argue about cost if the child's fear of the dentist is relieved. "Our aim," says Pedodontist Addelston, "is to make the child realize that going to the dentist...
...complete the training he had received as an army medic, Riou went back to Haiti and built a second hospital room. Since then, he has constructed wards for 70 patients, a 40-bed TB sanatorium, a mental ward, a maternity ward and an operating room. He even has a dentist's chair where he pulls teeth...
...Music Society of Weston, Mass." It installed itself in the Common Room and toyed with the acoustics for a while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
...event was billed at Winthrop under the somewhat misleading title of "Doc Wells and Seven Swinging Surgeons." Actually, as noted, the group consisted of three doctors, a dentist, and five businessmen and professionals--all from Weston. They play mostly for themselves ("Our wives don't lot us away too much"), but appear in public on select occasions ("There has to be a little booze"). Since Condon's moved to the East Side and went respectable--they don't serve you under eighteen any more--this was your reviewer's first encounter with hot jazz. And it was refreshing...