Word: toothful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water supplies. But such efforts are not enough, he maintains. Only 155 million of 200 million persons in the U.S. are served by treatable public water supplies. Of them, only 82 million now drink water containing natural or supplemented fluoride. Muhler compounded his new paste to provide protection against tooth decay for 100% of the population, and particularly for disadvantaged preschool children, among whom dental care is the most neglected health service...
...sold over the counter. Since indiscriminate use of his potent fluoride formula could be damaging, it must be applied under the direction of a dentist or a dental hygienist. More than 1.5 million persons have tested the paste thus far. The results: a 40%-95% reduction in tooth decay over a three-year period, depending on whether or not a treated person also drinks fluoridated water regularly. In Viet Nam, 400,000 combat troops, who average only one brushing every 21 days, have taken the treatment. Two hundred thousand additional soldiers will have their teeth scrubbed every three months...
...procaine (Novocain) and vitamins. American patients have tried the treatment with no medically provable benefits. If Asian's claims were true, says Dr. Nathan Shock of the National Institutes of Health, "you'd be adding ten years to your life every time the dentist filled a tooth...
...genetic defect transmitted from mother to son, is a clotting protein known as antihemophilic factor (AHF) or globulin (AHG), also called Factor VIII. Because of this deficiency, the hemophilia victim lives in constant danger of severe bleeding from the most minor wound, such as a finger cut or a tooth extraction. Even with no external injury, he may bleed internally after a bump or a stumble. This is especially likely to happen inside his joints, causing arthritis with progressive deformity and disability...
...devil because you're blackhearted." "You wear black to funerals and white to weddings," "You can tell a good guy because he wears a white hat," little Black children see a cleanser on TV that cleans all black dirt and grime like a white tornado and they see the tooth decay villain dressed in black (causing the teeth of kids like them to hurt) and they see a toothpaste agent all in white destroying the nasty ugly tooth decay villain, "If a Black cat crosses your path, it's bad luck, "If you want to tell...