Word: pyorrhea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result anthropologists have prophesied that the human race will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...
...Szent-Györgyi later found, along with Vitamin C in fruit juices and adrenals, a "permeability factor" which he calls Vitamin P, not present in synthesized C. Vitamin P keeps the walls of body cells in good condition. Without both, a person develops pyorrhea and scurvy. He bleeds easily, may be subject to certain virus and bacterial diseases. With an ample supply of these vitamins, he can overcome such ailments. Although Hungarian pepper is the most abundant source of these vitamins, this condiment is little known in the U. S. Most convenient source of the vitamins thus remain...
...says Dr. Hooton, "if I were asked in what occupations the United States indubitably leads the world, I should reply without hesitation, dentistry and plumbing." Yet in the mouth of civilized man he finds a chamber of horrors which shows perfectly well which way human evolution is going. Caries, pyorrhea and malocclusion (failure of upper and lower teeth to engage properly) are rare among savages-"at least until the savage comes in contact with civilization, missionaries, canned foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check the increase of dental...
...Committee, too. . . For halfbacks: Joshua, of whom the Bible says that he 'passed through,' and Daniel, who was resolute and stuck to the right. I'd put Daniel in charge of the training table, too, he showed he knew his simple fare was better than the pyorrhea-giving diet of the Babylonians. For fullback, John the Baptist-he'd prepare...
...human dentition. Dr. Nye W. Goodman of Los Angeles declared that a great many people were "dental cripples." Dr. Samuel Rabkin of Cincinnati, who believes that wars and economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder to make lower plates stay put than uppers...