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Periodontal disease, the bacteria-related deterioration of the gum and bone tissue that holds the tooth's root in place, is an almost universal ailment. At least 85% of all people over 40 suffer from it to some extent, and it is the chief reason why adults lose teeth. Dentists routinely treat serious cases with "resective therapy"-removing diseased tissues and sometimes putting in dentures. An occasional alternative involves root-canal work. Now three Denver dentists are offering some patients a third choice. In experimental operations, they have been tapping their patients' hips for marrow to save their...
...long attempted to correct some conditions by bridging sections of jawbone with particles of bone from other parts of the body. But the aim of the Denver trio-Drs. William Hiatt, Robert Schallhorn and William Boyce-is to regenerate bone rather than replace it. They graft marrow around the tooth to encourage new growth in the bone surrounding...
...their own bone marrow. Under local anesthesia the marrow is taken from the hip through a hollow needle. Later the same day they go to the dentist's office, where the marrow is implanted. The procedure, which involves laying back the gum and cleaning the lesion around the tooth before filling it with bone marrow, rarely takes more than half an hour...
...with tiny gumdrops blended into tutti-frutti-flavor ice cream, was invented in 1965. But the gumdrops kept freezing solid. "When people bit into it," Robbins recalls, "it was like biting a rock. That was the only flavor we had to drop. We were afraid someone would break a tooth...
This Carmen is scarcely voluptuous. Rather, she is a kind of molting puma, long in claw and tooth, snarling at a world that is not to her liking. Wanton she may be, but she gets no joy out of it; her eye is out for the main chance, for social advancement rather than sexual gratification. Her quarrel with the overseer of the cigarette factory ends in no mere slap; she tears the poor creature's bodice and carves a bloody cross on her back. Her seduction of Don José is more challenge than submission, and when he ultimately...