Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time on FM; the more times he is recording something that will be used later in the show as well as controlling "air"; and the more times something nearly goes wrong and the controlman practically has to see to one tape with his foot and another with his teeth, the better...
...Tots Teeth. At week's end, arriving exuberantly in Texas for the Easter holiday, Johnson announced new plans to expand the Great Society. At a bill-signing ceremony to celebrate a two-month extension of the medicare registration deadline-held characteristically at a federally financed home for the aged in San Antonio-Johnson said he would ask Congress next year for "increased insurance benefits, across the board, for 21 million beneficiaries" of social security, plus free dental services under medicare for children...
After its dentists satisfied themselves that the fluoridated toothpastes help to keep adequate amounts of fluoride in the teeth after painting, the Navy settled on painting every year. The first treatment costs only 25? a man for materials; dental technicians are treating three or four times as many patients as before, and the Navy expects soon to make a big dent in its huge backlog of cavities, treating 1,000,000 patients a year at 48 preventive-dentistry centers. Says Rear Admiral Frank M. Kyes, chief of the Navy's dental services: "It now takes us less time...
...Finn Brudevold of Harvard's famed Forsyth Dental Center is concerned that the tin in the stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that the best coating is polyoxyethylene soya amine-a sort of reverse detergent to keep the saliva from washing the fluoride away...
...general use. Phosphates are safer and more promising, and several communities are trying the addition of dicalcium phosphate to cereals and bread. Even the most skeptical investigators at the National Institute of Dental Research now believe that decay may be arrested in its earliest stages by painting the teeth with a solution containing tricalcium phosphate and potassium fluoride...