Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker...
...half years ago Dr. Glenn E. Willhelmy of St. Louis, a Naval Reserve dentist, reported to the Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...
...aviators examined, Navy Dentist Lowry found that 83 had abnormal closure of the jaws. Most of them were older airmen and 33 of them had ear troubles. His remedy was simple. From wax impressions he made dental splints, bits of form-fitting vulcanite, which fit snugly over lower molars and hold fliers' jaws in proper position. Because normally these are needed only during flight a pilot can carry his in his pocket, slip it between his teeth before takeoffs, leave it in his locker after landing. Dr. Lowry said they work...
Some 75% of U. S. citizens, through poverty, fear or ignorance, have never felt the pang of a dentist's drill. In large cities, crowded WPA clinics work overtime, but contribute only a drop in the bucket. In spite of numerous free school clinics, over 95% of U. S. school children are seriously in need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator...
...exquisitely painful as the prolonged probing of a dentist's drill on a bare nerve is Tic Douloureux, or facial neuralgia, a disease which attacks the nerve tract of cheeks, mouth and tongue. Neuralgia spasms seldom last longer than two minutes, often twist a patient's face into a hideous grimace of agony. Usually persons over 40 years old are victims of the disease, and at first attacks may occur no more than twice a year. Later they return several times a day with increasing severity until sufferers long for death as the only relief from their pain...