Word: hygienist
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Frail woman cries quickly that she is ill and for that very trick lives longer than man. Hygienist Letitia Denny Fairfield of London* has just completed analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost...
Your medical section reporter seems to have no knowledge of the dental profession (report on Chicago Dental Society meeting) [TIME, Feb. 8]. "D.D.S." means "Doctor of Dental Surgery" and is never accompanied by the title Mr. No dental student looks forward to being a specialist called a dental hygienist - unless a medical student looks forward to being a trained nurse. A dental hygienist is a young lady having a special one-year course in the proper cleansing of the oral cavity and its contents - otherwise known as the mouth, gums and teeth. FREDERICK H. HOEFFER, D.D.S...
Some dental schools require only a high school diploma as entrance requirements; most demand one year of college work; very few a college degree. The dental student, realizing the profits a specialist earns, looks to becoming a dental hygienist, radiographer or exodontist. With perseverance, time and money he may become a dentist with a B. S. degree, M. S., or even D. D. S. But the run of the profession know little beyond immediate teeth conditions and their alleviation. In Chicago last week 12,000 dentists attending the 62nd annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society were reminded...