Word: mandibular
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false teeth in edentulous mouths...
Last week in Manhattan, Osteopath Perrin Thacher Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., reported that for 35 years he has cured facial neuralgia by repositioning the mandibular joints. Whereas Dr. Costen uses dental crutches to realign the jaws, Dr. Wilson wriggles them into position by repeated osteopathic manipulation...