Word: pyorrhea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. ¶More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than decay, Tuft's College Professor Irving Glickman told Greater New York dentists, and pyorrhea is essentially a disease not of the gums but of bone. Treatment, therefore, must cover the patient's calcium metabolism and hormone balance, not just his mouth...
Later he became a very important citizen, perhaps the king of his people, and lived until he was about 70 years old. By that time he could not have been too unwilling to die. He was suffering from pyorrhea (infected jaw) and two painful and deforming diseases of the spine which even modern doctors cannot cure...