Word: toothful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...
Picking up patients is a serious business for the nation's 130,226 tooth doctors. Lately they have been seeing more cavities in their chairs than in their patients' mouths. They face what for them is an alarming trend: the prospect of fewer patients and better teeth. In the late 1960s, a survey by the American Dental Association found that 14% of dentists "would like more patients." Ten years later, 21% of dentists had come to the same conclusion. Still the average annual net income of U.S. dentists is around...
Dentists are also victims of their own success. With improved equipment like high-speed drills, tooth capping and other repairs can be accomplished in a fraction of the time once needed. Preventive oral hygiene has also paid off in healthier teeth. The three-decades-old program of adding fluoride to drinking water has had dramatic impact on cavities-and so have fluoride toothpastes. An A.D.A. survey shows that a child who drinks fluoridated water from birth to age 14 develops 60% fewer cavities than a youngster who drinks unfluoridated water...
...Cincinnati and Kansas City, featuring toothy models and the lines: "Dazzle. When your teeth have it, you have it. So go get some at your dentist's." The California Dental Association has supplemented "dazzle" with "doodle." Print, TV and billboards show a smiling woman or man whose front tooth has been blackened by a marking pencil. The warning: "Don't doodle around with your teeth." So far, the experimental ad campaigns have had only mixed results...
Researchers at the Harvard Dental School believe small dosages of the antibiotic tetracycline can help treat periodontal disease, the major cause of tooth loss in adults...