Word: sodium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...using dental hygienists in schools, the cost, according to U.S.P.H.S. doctors, can be reduced t010? a tooth. A gallon of 2% sodium fluoride, enough to treat the whole school population in an average-sized community, costs 5?. But 16 treatments are needed-a series of four each at ages 3, 7, 10 and 13. Actually, there are not enough dental hygienists to go around. Dentists would have to charge their private patients up to $40 for the 16 treatments...
...anesthetics have replaced sick-making ether, or made it possible to use much less. Hangover-proof cyclopropane was first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...
...removing calcium† from the rotifers' water, he stretched out their lives. By adding calcium, he shortened them. Brief immersions in sodium citrate, which removes calcium, lengthened the life spans of aging rotifers...
...long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
Vienna-born Dentist Bernhard Gottlieb and three colleagues at Baylor University reported a treatment which they claimed was even better than sodium fluoride: a solution of zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, which plugs microscopic cracks in the teeth against bacterial invasion...