Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a county in the Texas Panhandle-it rejoices in the name of Deaf Smith County-where almost no one has any holes in his teeth (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). So, a couple of years ago, reported a brave dentist named Edward Taylor who practiced there. Dentist Taylor thought that tough teeth resulted from the meat and vegetables raised on Deaf Smith soil, rich in calcium and phosphorus, and from Deaf Smith drinking water, rich in calcium and fluorine...
...Journal of the American Dental Association last week, Dentist S. G. Harootian told how he gave the Deaf Smith treatment a preliminary clinical trial in a Massachusetts madhouse. Dr. Harootian gave capsules of bone flour (rich in calcium, phosphorus and fluorine) to nine women whose teeth were decaying very rapidly. Decay seemed to stop almost at once. During the nine-month trial no tooth decay spread, only one new cavity developed. One hole, drilled for a filling but left empty, did not decay...
...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...
Deafening Chorus. Besides Surgeon Sanger, now a lieutenant colonel, there is medium-sized, thin Lieut. Colonel Thomas Preston White, who heads the medical staff, Lieut. Colonel George T. Wood, executive officer, Dentist Vaiden Kendrick, Charlotte's ace toothpuller (there was a rush of dental procrastinators to his chair when he announced he was leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting...
Harold Ross, picket-toothed editor of The New Yorker, read in Exquisite Lucius Beebe's rococo column that he was shy a front tooth. Ross wrote in reply that he had all his front teeth, had a whopping gap between two of them, had refused his dentist's suggestion that it be filled in. Cried Ross to Beebe: ". . . You are making an eccentric...