Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judging the prospects of atomic-radiation victims: 1) all who do not vomit should live; 2) those who go on vomiting will die; 3) half of those who stop vomiting within a few hours will live. ¶ Britain's National Health Service started disciplinary action against a dentist who did 14 fillings in 55 minutes-on the ground that he was too fast to be good. ¶ As the number of old people has increased, medicine was ready with a word: geriatrics, a branch of medicine dealing with the ailments of the aged. But geriatricians will...
...doesn't Dentist Mack try to spend a few nights with a hay rake attached to his own teeth to find out how the children feel when they accidentally brush their tongues against that torture contraption while sleeping...
...July Journal of the American Dental Association, Dentist Edward S. Mack of San Francisco puts in a strong case for the do-something-about-it school. He admits that interfering with the habit causes frustration. But, he argues, so does toilet training or teaching a child not to lie and steal. "Compared to the intensity of frustration involved in [these] necessary frustrations," says Dr. Mack, "the correction of thumb-sucking hardly bears mentioning . . . And . . . this habit . . . produces a penalty of subsequent deformity out of all proportion to the crime." Besides pushing the teeth out of place, he says, thumb-sucking...
...Dentist Mack goes more than halfway to meet the psychologists: psychological treatment should come first, he says, and local treatment should be tried only if thumb-sucking still persists. Nagging the child, he says, painting the thumb with ill-tasting medicines, guards, gloves and closed sleeves are not good. Neither are plates and bars which the child can remove from his mouth...
...scared, but you're a professional, so you concentrate on not being afraid. Until you get used to it, you've got that go-to-the-dentist's feeling in your stomach. Everyone is quiet on the radio. This is the time when every pilot is a philosopher: he's just sitting there and thinking. Then the leader gives the word. I just say 'follow...