Word: toothful
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...pills they get from the dentist and, you know, sort of get the prescription refilled again. They take like five at a time of Darvon Compound 65, which is a pain-killer and also a kind of groovy trip. It's easy to get for everyone. Just get one tooth pulled or filled...
Endocrinologist Greep first became involved in dental research when he discovered a toothless rat during some experiments on pituitary glands. He breeded a strain of toothless rats, and moved on to other problems of tooth development...
Though few people outside medicine and biology know the word, collagen is one of the most important constituents of the human body, making up 30% of its protein. In bone and tooth enamel, its long chains of molecules serve the same purpose as that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones...
...sometimes seems that the U.S., like a man with an aching tooth, can think of nothing but Viet Nam. Man and nation begin to feel bad all over. But more detached historians could conclude that in the spring of 1967, the general state of the world is more promising than discouraging, more optimistic than gloomy. There is rapid, continuous change, and much of it is in the direction of hope and betterment...
...desk, grinned wanly and shrugged. In Los Angeles, KNBC viewers telephoned the station to complain that Pinch Newscaster Harry Howe was chewing gum while reading the financial news. Not so, Howe later explained. Seems that while struggling with all those Dow-Jones figures, he dislodged a filling in his tooth and, not knowing whether to swallow it or spit it out, bounced it from cheek to cheek between syllables...