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...been bothered lately by the tooth's roughness. Before the President went on vacation, White House Dentist Lieut. Colonel James Fairchild checked and found the molar split. It was not painful, but there was danger of infection. Fairchild's decision: extraction. As a precaution against excessive bleeding, Ike was taken off the anticoagulant he gets six times a week as a part of his heart therapy. Armed with X rays, Colonel Robert B. Shira, head of Walter Reed's oral-surgery section, yanked the tooth, sent him on his way in 15 minutes...
Farrell tried to get comfortable in a seat like a combination dentist's chair and toilet seat. He wore dark glasses, because bright light beat continuously upon him for the still camera (taking a picture every 75 seconds) and the television camera transmitting uninterruptedly by closed circuit to a nearby viewing room. Electrodes were taped to Farrell's arm and chest: he plugged in the leads so that doctors from the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine could keep watch on his pulse and breathing...
...teacher in the public school system, I am a little horrified that the Cincinnati Dental Society has imposed such a penalty on Dentist Peter Garvin for his column "Your Teeth" [Jan. 27]. As I observe the wholesale neglect of the teeth of children and adults PS well, it would appear that any attention called to the care of teeth would be a step in the proper direction-even at the risk of a little advertising...
...Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three-dimensional relief models of their innards to his friends...
...Dentist Garvin vowed to appeal his case to the state and nationa' dental societies and the courts, if necessary. His column, ballyhooed by General Features ("More reader interest than a) politics, b) baseball, c) Elvis Presley, d) canals, or e) Marilyn Monroe, COMBINED!"), is running in about 50 papers. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate is starting a rival column written by a Cleveland dentist who is retired and thus need not heed the cries of his fellow dentists should he touch them on a sensitive nerve. Dentist Garvin himself is so flooded with would-be patients...