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...Orthodontist Richard Paulson, 39, lives with his wife Betty Ann and two daughters in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley. In the woods behind his large rambling house, Paulson likes to take his children walking to see woodchucks, mallards, chipmunks and an occasional fox. They feed pheasant on their lawn. The Paulsons attend church ten minutes away in downtown Minneapolis, and in the summers vacation on the thickly wooded shores of sparkling, uncrowded Gull Lake, 2½ hours north of the Twin Cities. "I feel fortunate," says Paulson, "that we can still taste the things that 50 years ago people took...
...married women [June 4] and the question, "What if she becomes pregnant?": as long as we live in an inflated economy, the imperative for a working-class woman to be employed outside the home will increase with each child that must be fed, clothed, educated and taken to the orthodontist. I can only hope for retirement after the last quarter's college tuition is paid for my youngest child. Leaving the work force was a luxury I could afford only before I became a mother...
...When an orthodontist tries to correct malformations in a child's teeth and jaw, he must attempt to figure out how these parts will change as the youngster matures. Dr. Geoffrey Walker of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has come up with a method that promises to reduce the guesswork involved in this process. He has taken 15,000 skull-profile X rays made over a period of years and converted these pictures to coordinate maps of the skull and jaw. The result is a computer model capable of predicting how a jaw will grow. With just...
...used toothbrushes and gum stimulators properly, dental diseases could be sharply reduced. But as Tufts University's Dr. Irving Glickman told the Fourth Annual Workshop on Preventive Dentistry in Washington last week: "The public is apathetic, but our apathy makes the public's look small." Adds Harvard Orthodontist Herbert Wells: "Except for the introduction of high-speed drills, nothing much has happened to dental technology since...
...Whenever possible," says Orthodontist Dwight A. Jackson of Winston-Salem, N.C., "we pick inconspicuous appliances for the adult. But we can't let the factor of appearance handicap the work. Fortunately, there are some procedures that need only inconspicuous appliances, and some mouths that respond to appliances worn only at night...