Word: orthodontia
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This book is a recipe for madness. Common sense and ancient wisdom agree that the secret of a happy and productive inner life is to forget as much as possible-forget time's winged chariot, forget that your child needs orthodontia, forget that you have forgotten your mother's birthday, forget that the drink you hold as you watch the evening news (which itself must be forgotten) will demolish a billion brain cells...
...Formerly often called orthodontia-until orthodontists decided to straighten the name of their own specialty to match obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics...
...Dentistry is in danger of becoming as overspecialized as medicine, complained the Chicago Dental Society, largely because "a specialty and high fees have become synonymous." To senior dental students the most alluring specialty is orthodontia, which, they believe, "has a halo of pure gold around...
...other appointments are four changes in the titles of faculty members who will give instruction at the School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Varastad H. Kazanjian, professor of Clinical Oral Surgery, will become professor of Plastic Surgery; Dr. Fred R. Blumesthal, assistant professor of Orthodontia, will become assistant professor of Orthodontics; Dr. Kurt H. Thomas, Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology, will become professor of Oral Surgery and Charles A. Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology; and Dr. Arthur M. Maloney, associate professor of Prosthetic Dentistry, will become associate professor of Clinical Dentistry...
Among the participants in the society's discussions will be Dr. Ales Hardlicka of the U. S. Natural Museum; Father C. J. Connolly of the Catholic University of America; Lawrence W. Baker, professor of Orthodontia, and David B. Dill, associate professor of Industrial Physiology, of the Fatigue Laboratory...