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Lister's Dream. Protection against infection is especially important for burn patients because their wounds are large and the dead tissue is a rich soil for bacteria. It is no less important for transplant patients and for many others on high doses of cortisone-type drugs, whose resistance to infection is reduced...
...much of the tooth seems to be inert that some dental surgeons hoped that a transplant would not set off rejection reactions. They thought it might be possible to graft teeth from one person to another in much the same way as the bloodless cornea of the eye can be grafted, and for essentially the same reasons. Some dentists at last week's meeting claimed successes in person-to-person transplants that have lasted from two to four years. But they had no X rays to show that the roots were still healthy. Soon, their colleagues predicted, the crowns...
Wisdom Growth. But all the experts agreed that transplantation of a tooth inside the patient's own mouth is indeed worthwhile. The likeliest occasion for using this technique is when an adolescent or young adult loses one of his first molars (as one in three does) because of decay. Then, if the patient has a "wisdom tooth" that has not yet broken through, or is threatening to become impacted, the dentist removes it and uses it to replace the lost molar. This young, "budding" tooth will take root and grow just like any other tooth, except that it will...
...potential benefits to humanity from the transplantation of organs are so great that they are tempting insufficiently trained surgeons, warns Dr. Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963). For kidney transplants, pioneered at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, of which he is surgeon in chief, Dr. Moore says that skill is needed in four specialties: kidney physiology, the surgery of blood vessels, treatment of urological disease, and the use of potentially poisonous drugs to suppress transplant rejection...
...ride Winston Churchill, now 89, had also managed to work on "one of the finest speeches ever made in the world." To honor the author of the famed "Iron Curtain" speech, Truman was again at Westminster last week for the groundbreaking of a Churchill Memorial project that will transplant a bombed-out London church to the Missouri campus...