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...McCANN LTD. LIVE AT SHELLY'S MANNE HOLE (Limelight). Infusing this album is that welcome but all-too-infrequent spirit -humor. McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
...lower jaw is too short, Dr. Obwegeser cuts halfway through its rearward, ascending segment, the ramus, on the inner side. On the cheek side, he cuts halfway through the bottom part of the jawbone. Then he divides the bone lengthwise, leaving two pieces with half-thickness ends. He slides these pieces apart, lengthening the jawbone but leaving a space where the lower cut was made. Where nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move...
...have a first-class brain, and yet be unable to get a good job because he has an ugly protruding jaw," said the Army's Colonel Robert B. Shira, president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons. "If he has difficulty in chewing, he cannot eat many normal foods. He may develop disease in the mouth because his teeth don't meet properly. And he may get a complex because he doesn't look like other people. The psychological factors are enormously important. Now, with Obwegeser's techniques, we can completely alter the appearance...
...oral surgeon is a dentist who has taken at least three years of additional, specialized training in the treatment of the jaw and related structures...
Mumps, like measles, is one of those familiar childhood diseases that have long been minimized. Most of its vic tims are between five and ten, and usu ally they suffer no more than a few days of fever and headache, a swollen jaw and difficulty in swallowing. But those symptoms are increasingly being recognized as signs of a potentially serious medical problem. Virologists in many different laboratories have been working overtime to develop an effective preventive vaccine...