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...parts of the human skeleton are more subject to wear than the mandible, or lower jawbone. Aging alone can cause the bone to atrophy, or waste away. Chewing, mainly by those wearing dentures, can greatly accelerate the loss. For years doctors have dealt with mandibular atrophy-and with providing a better anchorage for false teeth -by painful and time-consuming bone and skin grafts. Now a Detroit oral surgeon may have found a better way. At a meeting of the American Society of Oral Surgeons in Las Vegas tins week, Dr. Irwin A. Small of Sinai Hospital of Detroit reported...
...wrestling game. But that was not how the script read when Dr. Sam Sheppard made his debut against Wild Bill Scholl in a charity match in Waverly, Ohio. Seven minutes into the match Dr. Sam coolly jammed two fingers into Wild Bill's mouth and expertly pressed the mandibular nerve, which lies in the tender area under the tongue. Scholl instantly went limp with agony. Fall and match to Sheppard. "Only new thing I've seen in wrestling in 15 years," said Sam's jubilant manager. Groaned Scholl: "It's not only horribly painful...
...head-and put each in a separate cage. None of the three had much effect on-a queenless cluster, but when the severed parts were crushed, the workers rallied around the crushed head. So the queen's powerful perfume must come from her head, probably from the mandibular glands...
...American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false teeth in edentulous mouths...
Last week in Manhattan, Osteopath Perrin Thacher Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., reported that for 35 years he has cured facial neuralgia by repositioning the mandibular joints. Whereas Dr. Costen uses dental crutches to realign the jaws, Dr. Wilson wriggles them into position by repeated osteopathic manipulation...