Word: shira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a first-class brain, and yet be unable to get a good job because he has an ugly protruding jaw," said the Army's Colonel Robert B. Shira, president of the American Society of Oral Surgeons. "If he has difficulty in chewing, he cannot eat many normal foods. He may develop disease in the mouth because his teeth don't meet properly. And he may get a complex because he doesn't look like other people. The psychological factors are enormously important. Now, with Obwegeser's techniques, we can completely alter the appearance...