Word: exodontia
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...Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed a frothy mortar of sex and exodontia. Readers are likely to find Dr. Eskelund's love affairs (he was thrice-married, had many mistresses) less picaresque, however, than his adventures in oral hygiene, although there were times when it became hard for the dentist himself to distinguish between them...
Assistant Professor Dept. of Anesthesia & Exodontia University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa. >-The fact about the discovery of anesthesia appears to be that there is much to be said on several sides...
...following, the A. D. A. decided last week, are authentic dental specialties: exodontia, oral surgery, periodontia (tissues surrounding teeth), orthodontia (straight teeth), prosthodontia (false teeth), pedodontia (children's teeth). To promote those specialties a vast array of national dental societies met in San Francisco last week or warmed up there the week before: American Dental Association, American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, American Academy of Periodontology, American Association of Dental Editors, American College of Dentists, American Society of Oral Surgeons & Exodontists, Association of American Women Dentists, Association of Military Dental Surgeons of the U. S., National Association of Dental Examiners...
...that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers. He is a big, bald man, ponderous in movement, pontifical in talk. Son of a doctor and one of the few U. S. dentists with a medical degree, he is a triple specialist - exodontia (tooth-pulling), roentgenology (xray) and oral surgery. His dental constituents admire him for being on the staff of four Nashville hospitals, for working in his office 10 to 15 hours daily, for reading no books or magazines except those which "concern my work," for having "no time for civic interests...
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