SEC. 34.66 P.L.&R. tic U. S. Postage PA I D 413 North Pearl Street, Albany 1, N. Y. ALBANY, H. Y. Form 3547 Requested Permit No. 1648 INTHER E N A I S A N e El tic May 1955 tic Published monthly by TICO:-.iIUM A MAGAZINE FOR DENTISTS, DENTAL ASS ISTANTS, AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS ~G\l'f.S 413 N. Pearl St., Albany I, N. Y. Copyright, 1955, Ticonium Annual Subscription, $2.50 'tt-~'\) EDITOR, Joseph Strack CONTRIBUTING ED ITORS Arthur H. Levine, D.D.S. MPRESSIONS Joseph Murray, D.D.S. May 1955, Vol XIV, No. 5 IS IT LATER THAN YOU THINK? C ON TE NTS by Maurice J. Teite lbaum, D.D.S. Carefully he notes the flaws by Connie Doyle Shown in the pictures of the patient's jaws. IS IT LATER THAN YOU THINK? Ind-dental Items in the News Two extractions and a cy.st, A provocative editorial-article Doctor Superior, still on speaking terms with his office clock, Six alloys needed and three silicates, that can save many practices­ amI dentists- from going to looked up and murmured to himself, "Is it really that late?" The A bridge up here, he muses, Dentists may favor golf and fishing but, accord­ smash ....... ... ... .. .. ec:ho from the office made his deep sigh almost And then two crowns down here he chooses. ~mp~y, th~ee-chair ing to a leading sports columnist, hockey is a den­ dIslodge the klllgslZe ChIp from his shoulder. The patient asks: "See anything yet?" CHILDREN'S EXODONTICS: THE USE tist's delight. Just about everyone on the New York OF ETHYL CHLORIDE An<:>ther of Doc~or S~perior's. patients had canceled just this Rangers hockey team has lost a tooth on the ice. The dentist smiles, "Yes, a new T .V. setl" "Your child patients will ex­ perience a great th rill in the mornmg and the lmaglllary ChIp was growing steadily. Once, ... In South Cal'Olina a man was dissatisfied with extraction of deciduous teeth way back ,:hen he began his practice in this small town, the chip his set of dentures and advertised to rent or sell through simple surgical oper­ was noneXIstent: Pr~ud of his first chair. getting acquainted and THE PATIENT AND THE PROSTHODONTIST ations with absolutely no evi- them. Over 100 people answered the ad . .. A den.tally e~ucatl?g hIS homespun patients, taking the time to be Mister DuBoise complained that whenever he talked dence of pain or suffering". 3 Mississippi school teacher has removed over 1,500 patlent WIth chIldren and to make social contacts, he had, in a his dentures clack-clicked, deciduous teeth in her 40 years as a school teacher. DR. DANI EL F. LYNCH, A.D.A. few short. years, cleared his debts, bought a horne and a mod­ And that no dentist could get the problem licked. PR ES IDE NT Her instrument was a piece of string and her anes­ erately pnced car. \\Then his own youngsters begged for a romp So Doctor Stryumph rearranged the teeth in the The second installment of a thetic was a collection of children's stories. A three-par t story about the at home, he found the time. ' back, 53-year-old Frenchman displayed a set of "muscular man who holds the most im­ As contented as ~ turkey still alive in January, he happily But then Mister DuBoise went click-clack. portant dental post in the molars" by pulling a plough with his teeth. In ~ooked forward to hIS class reunion at a forthcoming dental meet­ Not discouraged, he tried a new prosthetic trick­ world . .. ............ ... .. 5 Chicago a Boston bull whose bite was worse than mg. It woul~ be great to reminisce with good old George, who Only to have the patient return with a clickety-click. DENTISTRY DURING TH E his bark was fitted with an upper plate.... A Wis­ had share~ hIS room, and that ball-of-fire, class president Bob. Still undaunted the prosthodontist tried a frontal RENAI SSANCE consin dentist has designed a lower denture with E.verythu:g rolled as smoothly as mercury at the convention attack, The first of two installments metallic molars and bicuspids that have holes on on one of the most fruitful untIl, late III the evening, George mellowed and leaned across T o which Mister DuBoise responded clackety-clack. eras in early dental science. the occlusal and channels along the labial where the table. to confide: "Say, Bob, I doubled my net when I took Finally Doctor Stryumph Another fascinating chapter in the food is forced out. They were designed to cut TIC's exclusive pictorial his- your adVIce about adding a second dental chair. Thanks from Smiled in triumph. and shear food like a meat grinder. ... Did you tory of dentistry. 8 my heart all the way up to where I used to have hair." He reached in a glass jar and handed the patient know that: One of the best collegiate football "\\That you really need, George," Bob added from sheer broth­ two rolls of cotton OPERATIVE DENTISTY records. compiled last year was put together by Amalgam-another informative erly. love, as he patted a wave in his own hair, "is a third chair. CarnegIe Tech, whose coach is Doctor Ed Baker, a T hat he had just gotten. chapter in an outstanding ser­ I tnppled my practice." "What are these for?" asked Mister DuBoise. ies on modern dental proce- practicing dentist? . Henry James wrote his Doctor Superior craned forward to bay at the warm trail. "But Said the doctor: "To put in your ears so you won't dures .. .. ... .. 11 psychological thriller The Turn of the Screw to dis­ 'where do you guys get the time?" tract his attention from an excruciating toothache? hear the noise." DENTAL WIVES A feature that is always unique, "Simple," Bob explained. "Just divide time between three consistently interesting, and patients and slip back and forth. People are used to assembly unfailingly good . .. ..... 13 Gagging THOUGHTS WHILE WAITING FOR A SILICATE TO SET line production by nmv!" THE FA:\10US DOCTOR PRIME IMMEDI ATE DENTURE SERVI CE . "Then hov:'"do you. ed~cate them-or take on time-consuming, A woman should not embark on any culinary ad­ " . immediate denture dIfficult cases~ conSClentlOus Doctor Superior wanted to know. Fame was a claim of Doctor Prime ventures service is one of the most bene­ ficial and gratifying services Who could remove three wisdom teeth at the same With a husband who has just gotten new dentures. "!o~~h cases of patients with low incomes, I channel to spe­ that the dentist can perform Clahsts, George volunteered. "Let them wrestle with the extra time. for his patient.".. .. .. .. 14 But actually it's nothing you or I couldn't do, T wo heads may be better than one, ~ees . As ~or edu~ation,. I leave that to the coming crop of graduat­ 1£ we had his three hands instead of our two. Opinions expressed by contributors to mg dentlsts. TImes hke these may not last forever and I'm mak­ But not in a patient that needs surgery done. TIC magazine do not necessarily reflect DIAGNOSIS the views of the publishers. ing hay while the dollar shines. ' ~Iy city patients had dental education preached in school, so I don't have to waste time The dentist holds the roentgenograms just right T he hostess is ruthless Printed in U.S.A. by explaining." And studies the shadow readings in the light. \\Tho serves steak to guests toothless. C. P. Hoagland Co .. Inc., Somerville, New Jersey Cover artist, Edward Kasper Page Sixteen . -Ak. l Page O ne tic May 1955 May 1955 tic "But my patients are sort of backwoodsish, farm Dentist in the News tion and stability at the time of initial insertion, toothache will be momentarily grateful when the folks," Doctor Superior complained. "They don't but gradual loss of retention and stability should be pain is relieved, but a prosthetic appliance which understand dental nomenclature unless I break it anticipated as healing and resorption of the alveolar restores function and esthetics is a constant daily down in simple terms." bone progresses. reminder of the dentist's skill. The patient's grati­ "Quit wasting your time," Bob said. "It's not This should be carefully explained to the patient tude is further enhanced by the fact that he did your fault their vocabulary is poor. Try using so that he may better understand why it is necessary not have to go through the embarrassing and brief, technical terms. They won't bother you to reline his immediate denture one or more tirrl'es, inconvenient toothless stage. anymore." or even remake The personal the case at a later satisfaction which "Won't patients be angered by being snubbed d ate. Although the dentist de­ that way?" immediate den- rives at the com­ "A few, sure," Bob admitted. "But there will tures have been pletion and sub­ . always be plenty of patients-and very little time." known to func­ sequent follow-up Doctor Superior shrank in his tweeds as George tion for a number of an immediate and Bob revealed their incomes. When he saw the of years without denture case is cars they were driving, the splinters called Envy the need for re­ but a reflection and Ambition mated to beget the tiny chip that lit lining, most cases of the patient's on his shoulder. will require re­ feelings. Without Mrs. Superior objected to Chair No.2.