Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Dentist C. W. Messinger of Houghton, Mich, told members of the Chicago Dental Society that he had streamlined the ancient practice of tooth replacement and that now it did work. First he extracts an abscessed tooth, and removes the jaw abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger...
...that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist...
Practically applied in Danger Signal, the Adler-Bottome theory cross-fertilizes the problem novel and the detective story. In a bloodless climax the heroine psychologist (a Czech lecturing in London) extracts inferiority complexes and egocentricities like a dentist tweaking out a rotten tooth. Author Bottome patently exaggerates the omniscience of the psychologist, the tractability of her patients, shows that a novel about psychology and a good psychological novel are by no means the same thing...
...TIME advises Dentist Heflin to mind his molars...
Another explanation for tooth decay was offered by Dr. E. F. Briggs of Bangor, Me. The parathyroids (small bean-shaped glands surrounding the thyroid) regulate the amount of calcium absorbed by the body. Emotions, claimed imaginative Dentist Briggs, influence the parathyroids. "If a young man is disappointed in love, his teeth may decay in a few months." he said. "The emotions that cause decay are those that depress. . . . Middle-aged patients who suddenly present caries (tooth decay) . . . invariably have . . . passed through a period in which they had extra work, deep anxiety or added responsibility...