Word: easlick
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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When a child's milk tooth decays and is pulled before a permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the jaw may shrink and become malformed. As one way of combatting this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...
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