Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After gazing into many a U.S. mouth, the American Dental Association estimates that the country is afflicted with one billion unfilled cavities, five per head. It adds that 26 million Americans have lost all their teeth, while 80% of those over the age of 15 have some form of periodontal disease attacking the tissues that support the teeth. Worse, dental problems are proliferating faster than dentists can treat them...
Into the Labs. Last week's workshop demonstrated that professional apathy has begun to wane. In the universities and in the National Institute of Dental Research, most of the focus is on periodontal disease, which actually claims three times as many teeth as do cavities when people are past 35. To date, the main preventive treatment has been regular cleaning to remove the bacteria-containing film and tartar. Within two years, several commercial firms may be marketing new anti-periodontal-disease products in the form of toothpastes and mouthwashes...
...that a similar synthetic substance might provide an almost indestructible tooth filling. Dr. Robert Hoffman of the Waldemar Medical Research Foundation has demonstrated for the first time that a metal can be welded firmly to dental enamel by ultrasonic vibrations. He hopes to use that method to replace missing teeth and damaged tissues. Working toward the possibility of a "tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating eggs. No one has found a way to transplant teeth from one person to another, but it soon may not be necessary...
...orgy is expected to be brief, but the consequences of last week's decision will not be. Doctors and dentists are already complaining that cheaper candy will broaden waistlines and decay teeth. Beyond that, lower supermarket prices will probably mean an end to many of the 60,000 little neighborhood shops, which include sweets among their sundries, and last year accounted for 48% of Britain's candy sales. Most important, the candy case is the first in a series on the docket of the Restrictive Practices Court. The court is now scheduled to rule on price fixing...
...tale about a couple of Cockney families whose psychological problems are solved in 105 laff-filled minutes. One father loves his daughter to distraction; the other bullies his son out of house and home. The mothers stand at the ringside fretting with jealousy or issuing reprimands, teeth-clenched. Meanwhile their offspring fall in love, get married, and don't live happily ever after because they can't consummate their marriage...