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Also on the way are new methods to prevent tooth decay. Rochester Dentists Eriberto Cueto and Michael Buonocore recently cut decay by 86% among 269 young patients by applying a thin plastic coating twice yearly to tooth surfaces. In upstate New York, an NIDR researcher cut decay by 80% among 500 children who wore mouthpieces treated with sodium fluoride for six min utes of each school day for two years. By contrast, mass fluoridation of water reduces decay by about 65%. Using a self-administered prophylactic paste, Annapolis midshipmen were able to cut their incidence of cavities...
Barnacles & Baboons. Dental researchers have not ignored improvements in treatment. In another NIDR study, Dr. Nathan Cardarelli has been analyzing barnacle cementum with the idea 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...
...They are also provided with free military defense counsel. Generally young, the attorneys "really get in there and chew," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bill Wander, who has just returned from 13 months as the law officer* at every Marine or Navy general court-martial in Viet Nam. "They fight tooth and nail and don't give an inch. They come from all the best law schools...
...hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184 million fingerprints. By holding annual conventions on a different continent each year, Interpol unites the world's fuzz-Tokyo detectives, Canadian mounties, U.S. narcotics agents-for mutual education in everything from electronics to odonto-grams (tooth identification). In addition, Interpol organizes regular seminars on scientific crime detection, sends forgery bulletins to 5,000 banks and credit houses and reprints learned articles from 300 police publications in 60 countries...
...Tooth & Nose. Their audience is al most entirely girls. Brothers and boy friends mostly stick to Mad, car magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...