Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned on him. Filming a scene where they were supposed to kiss, the chimp suddenly sank his teeth into Mike. It took 18 stitches to reattach Tarzan's jaw, and three days and nights of "monkey fever" delirium before he regained consciousness...
...until the illnesses of Dwight Eisenhower was the world treated to the intimate, suture-by-suture reporting of presidential ailments that characterized the official treatment of Lyndon Johnson's operation last week. When Grover Cleveland had an operation for cancer of the jaw in 1893, he slipped away for surgery aboard a boat off Long Island. During the five months when Woodrow Wilson lay paralyzed by a stroke in 1919, the nation was scarcely aware that he was sick. Franklin Roosevelt had been ailing for months before his cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945, but the public...
Finally, head ringing, he decided that enough was enough. Says Hayes: "I hit Sample on the jaw, and he didn't give me any more trouble...
...patient's own teeth have worked well when thus transplanted, and rare is the patient who happens to have a surplus tooth handy just when it is needed. Now Brown University's Dr. Milton Hodosh reports encouraging progress with plas tic implants, molded to the aching jaw as soon as the offending tooth has been pulled. To make sure that the implants will stand up under any conceivable strain, he is installing them in baboons, which think nothing of trying to chew the steel bars of their cages...
...that the plastic teeth will hold up, the researchers exhibit a steel laboratory tray chewed into a shapeless mass by a baboon who did no damage to his implants in the process. Another baboon has three plastic implants supporting a two-tooth bridge in the front of his lower jaw; he has worn down the artificial teeth from savage chewing on metal caging, but they have not loosened. Not until his animal research is finished will Dr. Hodosh go back to making implants in human mouths...