ALUMNI BULLETIN
VOL. VII
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Dr. Childers
Director Of Dental Health Division
Dr. Leon M. Childers was ap- pointed in July to the post of Di- rector in the Dental Health Divi- sion in the State Board of Health.
We are pleased to make this be- 1 ated announcement in the Alumni Bulletin and to welcome Dr.
Childers.
Dr. Childers is a native of Kentucky and completed his dental training at the University of Louisville in 1931. Prior to his dental training he was graduated from Transylvania College in Lex- ington, Kentucky. From 1931 to 1942 he was in private practice in Lexington before being com- missioned in the U.S. Public Health Service. He was assigned to the Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Training Station in Brook- lyn. Upon his discharge from the service, he attended the University of Michigan School of Public Health and came to the State Board of Health following this training.
Indiana University School of Dentistry JANUAI\Y, 1946
D r. Wallace Speaks R efresher Courses B efore Fac'lilty . lnaugura:ted
A general faculty meeting of the The School of Dentistry is now School of Dentistry was held Fri- offering a series of refresher day, December 14th, at which Dr. courses for dental practitione s, Wallace, Secretary of. the Council/ particularly those returning from on Dental Therapeutics, was the' the armed forces. These courses speaker. · are designed to review the various Dr. Wallace, by means of slides, phases of dentistry for those in- gave an interesting talk on the terested, and to aquaint them with duties, progress, and importance of the recent advances in dental sci- the council. A portion of time was ence. The present winter term allotted for discussion by the fac- started January 10th and will end
ulty members. on March 16th.
At the brief business meeting The general plan for each preceding the talk by D:r. Wal- course is that it meets one morn- lace, the faculty unanimously ele~- ing a week. This allows the den- ted. J?r. Frank C. H~ghes as their tist to enroll in one or more sub- off1cial re~resentative to . the jects if he so desires and will allow Marc~ r_neetmg of the Ame.rican him to continue his practice at the Association of Dental Schools same time.
which will be held this year in
Kansas 9ty. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
Articles From Our Alumni
(We are asking various alumni to con- tribute articles to each issue of the Alumni Bulletin, the subject matter being optional.
'fhe following three are the first in this series.)
Our Greatest Service
No. 6
Dr. Adams
New · · Orthodontia Head Appointed
Indiana University School of Dentistry is pleased to announce that Dr. J. William Adams has been appointed as professor and head of the department of ortho··
dontia. Dr. Adams assumed his If you were to be asked just
duties in December, having just what you consider the greatest
service we dentists render for the been discharged from the Dental
Dr . D avis
Dr. Dai vis Appointed
public, how would you answer? Corps, U.S. Army, where he held Would you say the immediate den- the rank of major.
ture? In your opinion, would it be Dr. Adams received his D.D.S.
an accurate set of radiographs degree in 1936 from Ohio State interpreted correctly? A well- School of Dentistry. He accepted seated gold inlay, porcelain jacket an internship at Forsyth Dental crown, or a fixed bridge which Infirmary in Boston. Following rE>produced in minute detail the the year at Forsyth, he pursued anatomy of the missing tooth struc- graduate studies at the University tures which it replaced? An ortho- of Illinois and received his M.S.
don tic treatment? A prophylaxis? degree in 1939. He remained at A painless extraction? The sur- Illionis as a Carnegie Fellow in gical removal of an imbedded Orthodontic Research, following tooth? The successful reduction which he entered the army.
and immobilization of a fractured Dr. Adams, who is 34 years of - ·- - - jaw which results in good union age,has been a prominent research Indiana University School of of the fragments? worker in his field of orthodontia.
Dr. Childers has had a wide and practical experience in dental practice and health. We are pleas-
Dentistry is glad to announce the Unfortunately, our greatest Investig·ations which he has made appointment of Dr. Edith Davis service-in my opinion- is writte·n include cephalometric appraisal of as part-time clinical instructor in about and discussed much less fre- the human mandible, studies in the periodontia. Dr. Davis is the first quently than any of the important growth of untreated malocclusions,
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ALUMNI BULLETIN
School of Dentistry Indiana University Indianapolis, Indiana
A free and non-profit bulletin is- sued quarterly by Indiana Univer- sity School of Dentistry for the purpose of keeping its Alumni in- formed of the activities and prog- ress of the school.
Editor-R. W. PHILLIPS
Assistant to the Editor- R. HANNAH
Staff-A. 0. HUMPHREYS
R. A. MISSELHO&
W. B. CURRIE
Entered as second-class matter De- cember 31, 1941, at the post office at Indianapolis, Indiana, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Pub- lished four times a year, by The Indiana University School of Dent- istry, Indianapolis, Indiana, in the months of January, April, July, and October.
Vol. VII January, 1946 No. 6
THE LIBRARY
Selected List of New December 15, 1945
Books
Bailey's Textbook of histology.
11th ed. Williams & Wilkins, 1944.
Beckwith, Fleming & Williams:
Repair of the tooth and para- dentium in the guinea pig, rab- bit and cat. University of Cali- fornia Publications in Micro- biology, vol. 1 No. 1, 1943.
Bulbulian: Facial prosthesis. W.
B. Saunders, 1945.
Craddock: Prosthetic dentistry, a clinical outline. Kimpton, 1945.
Ellis: Classification and treatment of injuries to the teeth of child- ren. Yearbook publishers, 1945.
Friend: National plan of re-edu- cation for the control of dental d i s e a s e through prevention.
New Organization, 1942.
Hiscock (ed): Community health organization. 3rd. ed. Common- wealth Fund, 1939.
Hiscock: Ways to community health education. Commonwealth Fund, 1939.
Hoskins & Bever lander: Essentials of histology. C. V. Mosby, 1945.
H o s k i n s : Endocrinology, the glands and their functions. W.
W. Norton, 1941.
ALUMNI BULLETIN Jl\NUARY, 1946
i Postell: An introduction to med-\ Smolelis, J. M. Effects of time
QDD-DENTITIES
i ca 1 bibliography. Louisiana and temperature on the growth by State University School of Me- of lactobacillus acidophilus in ruhamah hannah
dicine, 1945. saliva. J.D.Res. 24: 201-202, dr. wilson gave up squirrels in Rahn: Injury and death of bac- June-August 1945 (Abstract). favor of bigger game last month teria by chemical agents. Biody- Van Huyse n, G C t · on ro o 1 f t oo th and went with some of his friends namica, 1945. d~cay using low carbohydrate to northern michigan 0·n a deer Stern: American medical practice diets · M o. B u · 1 I d n · S · Bd · hunt . . . it looked ·like old home in the perspectives of a century. Health 48:232-233,235, October week the other day up in the Commonwealth Fund, 1945. 1945. clinic. there were jim baker, '44, Tobey: Public health law. 2nd. ed. and Vincent, C. J. Rat car1°es. · ·
John kmg, '45, and k. c dawson
Commonwealth Fund, 1939. J D R 24 203 J A t · '
· . es. : , une- ugus , '45, chatting together . . . that Waite: The Gums with late dis- 1945 (Abstract). same day walter vendes, '39, and coveries on their structure, Vincent, C. J. Denture construe- his wife were visiting the school.
growth, connections, diseases and tion under unusual circum- his letters from overseas have sympathies. Philadelphia, 1838. stances. D. Students' Mag. 23: furnished the bulletin with much BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICA- 16-17• May l945. interesting material . . . edgar de TIONS BY THE FACULTY OF See. Van Huysen, G. jt. auts. jean, '44, his wife a·nd baby were l .N U l A N A
u
N 1v
EUSITY recent visitors. he is now stationedSCHOOL OF DENTISTRY at valley forge general hospital
JANUARY 1 - DECEM-
Refresher Courses ...
the august, 1945, graduatingBER 31, 1945 class presented dr. ert rogers with
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Barnfield, W. F. Leukemia and a plaque in appreciation of his
dental procedures. A review of The courses being offered and service and. instruction throughout the literature and study of 123 brief resume are given below: their years in dental school. al- cases. Am. J. Orthodont. & 1. Oral Surgery - The course will though the class didn't know it Oral Surg. 31: Sec. 0;:-al Surg. €mbrace anesthesia, removal of at the time, the plaque also com- 329-353, June 1945. teeth, retained root tips, prepara- memorated the ending of dr.
Subacute bacterial endocarditis tion of the oral cavity for restor- rogers' 25th year as instructor . . . and dental procedures. Am. ations and other more complicated lt. col. willard stamper, '37, is now J. Orthodont. & Oral Surg. 31: surgical procedure. Patients will out of uniform a:nd is taking a Sec. Oral Su.rg. 55-88, Feb- be available to the postgraduate little refresher work in the various ruary 1945. student for actual work of routine departments here at school. plans and Bergeim, Olaf: Lack of surgical operations. have been completed for an entire correlation between dental 2. Radiology _ The objective of refresher program for returned caries and salivary amylase. this course is to discuss and dem- servicemen and for any one else J. D. Res. 24: 141-142, June- onstrate the principles of intra- who is interested · · · welcome ~o August 1945. oral, lateral jaw, and other types dr. j. william adams, our new ortho- Boyd, D. A. Program of dental of dental radiography. dontist · · · harriet meister, d1·.
health through d" t th hall's secretary, has left us as has ie ary erapy. 3. Periodontia - The purpose is to
Mo Bul Ind S Bd H alth ann treadway, surgery. ann's place
· · · e present the current status of opin-
48. 86 A r·1 1945 S Ph'll' has been take·n by miss max1'ne
· ' P 1 · ee 1 ips, ion on the classification, etiology,
R W J't auth johnson · · . donald smith, sen1·0~·,
· · · · treatment and prognosis of peri- -
Carr, J. B. Dentistry's opportuni- odontal diseases. has been in the hospital with ty. Mo. Bul. Ind. S. Bd. Health, 4 p d d . Th' . pneumonia, and a lot of other 48:230, October 1945. . · e 0 ontics - is course. ~ill people around here have been feel- Crawford, W. H. See Phillips R. mcl~de :o~h lecdture and clu~1cal ing not so frisky with the flu . . .
W ·t th ' wor an t e stu ent may contmue dean hine was one of the headline Hall: JJ
~
a;. The Riley Hospital~r ~linical
wdo~k
intsheb~fternoo~s
speakers at the teunessee state d t l 1. . M B l I d S I e so esires. u Jects dis- dental society meet1·ng at knox-en a c m1c. o. u. n . . d
·n ·
1 d Ch"Bd. Health 48:234-235, October cusse wi m~ u e ild Manage- ville, october 28 . . . dr. hugh s, 1945. men~, Preventive Procedures, Op- deale, '44 and dr. charles herrick
erative Procedures, and Space Re- '45 h d ' Healey, H. J. See Phillips, R. W. ' ave opene offices at chester-
tainers. ·
jt. auth. ton, mdiana, and hobart, indiana,
Hine, M. K. Importance of public 5. Inlay Construction - This re- respectively . . . dr. robert ander- health dentistry. Mo. Bul. Ind. fresher course in inlay construe- son, '45, is interning in surgery,
s.
Bd. Health 48 :230, October tion is offered as a service to the and dr. elwood brickler, '45, has 1945. dentist who feels that he is not left for battle creek, michigan . . . Teaching oral diagnosis. J. D. as successful with inlay work as i forgot to mention up there inEduc. 9 :185_189 February he should be and also to the re- the first line that dr. wilson came 1945. ' · turning service man who feels that back from the deer hunt empty Krick, A. Preventive dentistry for he ':ould like to brush up on his handed . . . and that's all for
children. D. Asst. 14 :4
o,
March- castmg procedures. this time.McBride: Juvenile dentistry. 4th
ed. Lea & Febiger, 1945.
Merritt: Periodontal diseases and soft tissue lesions of the oral cavity, diagnosis and treatment.
3rd. ed. Macmillan, 1945.
April 1945. 6. Full Denture Prosthesis - A - - -
Phillips, R.
w.
Dental amalgram: condensed refresher course design-Director Qf Dental
a reaction involving measure- ed to give the student the latest ment of minute dimensional accepted procedures in full denture change. J. Chem. Educ. 22: 117- service and their application to 119, March 1945. general practice. Each student will Boyd, D. A.; Healey, H. J. and carry a case through completion.
Mustard: Government in public health. Commonwealth Fund, 1945.
M ustermann: Principles and prac- tice of x-ray technic and inter- pretation. Dental Items of Inter- est Publ. Co., 1945.
Crawford, W. H. Clinical ob- Another term of refresher cour- servations on amalgam with ses will be given in the near fu- known physical properties-- ture. Those interested should write final report. J.A.D.A. 32:325- to the Dean's Offic~ for more de- 330, March 1945. tailed information.
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ed to have him associated with the State Board of Health.
Also ~ppointed as a member of the State Board of Health in July was Dr. W. B. Currie. Dr. Currie a graduate of this school, was for.~
merly a major in the U.S. Army but has now resumed his private
'
practice.
JANUARY, 1946 ALUMNI BULLETIN
Ord meetl.ng to welcome the men are gradually handled with a
A r t• IC I es rom f
cured by either physicians or den- who have returned home from the gentler and quicker touc , an h dtists. · 1 h · C
Servl.ces. I take this opportunity they require ess s arpenmg. om·
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~hields .- r. · "" ' to invite each of you personally ing right down to cases, this means services mentioned above. It is Seymour, Indiana. and cordially, student or alumnus, that the patient's periodontal tis- neglected in the dental clinics, the to attend the meeting in May. Its sues are being neglected, and the dental meetings, dental offices and ultimate success depends upon dentist is not fulfilling an obliga- in dental literature. The public Recently I received a letter from your continued interest and pres- tion to his patient.
seems to want little of it. Never- the editor which I read with un- ence. Every dentist has a stake in the theless, the greatest service we usual interest because it carried Dr. Guthrie P. Carr, future and his success depends dentists have to off er is a good the announcement that the Alumni Lafayette, Indiana. upon many things; but I am firm- filling in a small sterilized cavity Bulletin is to be representative ly convinced that one of the first -the smaller. the cavity at th.e not only of the School of Dentistry, rules for getting on and making time of detection the better. Until but also of the alumni through- more of a success at dentistry is the time that both dentists and out the state. Undoubtedly, the Do You Sidestep Periodontal to cultivate the art of selling com- patients are sufficiently impressed alumni over the state read this Disease? plete service at an adequate fee.
by that fact, dentists and dentures announceme·nt with the same To dodge early periodontal dis- There are plenty of people who are going to remain virtually pleasure that I did. Certainly all ease and its causes, seems to be will buy fifty cents and one dollar synonymous. of us are glad of any opportunity one of the dental practitioner's tre'atments, who will tell you what Just why can such a seemingly which keeps us in closer contact most compelling impulses. It is to do, and who will leave you insignifica·nt operation that yields with the Indiana University School difficult to avoid seeing calculus when they feel like it. They are so little economically be con- of Dentistry. and debris, irritating restorations, the same people who will let you sidered so important? Several rea- We are proud of the school and and so many other local factors cool your heels and go broke dur- sons are obvious: (1) There never appreciate the inestimable value contributing to periodontal disease. ing a depression, and who now was a large cavity that at one it is to us. I wonder whether all These things are quite obvious to spend large sums of money on time was not a small neglected of the alumni realize that the anyone with "half an eye." Yet cosmetics, fur coats, automobiles, one. (2) Barring trauma, there school ranks in the second tenth practitioners in general ha v·e jewelry, etc.
never was an apial abscess on a of the de·ntal schools in the na- achieved great skill in sliding out I recall a recent conversation on tooth that didn't result from pulp tion? Since there are 36 dental from under the challenging prob- this subject with an Ohio dentist involvement by the caries causing schools in the United States, that lems and causes of periodontal dis- of long experience. He said, in the large cavity that, in its in- places us among the fifth, sixth, ease, the treatment of which often effect, that if one can educate cipiency, was the small one. (3) seventh, or eighth in this country. brings an inadequate fee. a patient to an appreciation of Death, of a dental origin, can be When you consider the large en- One dentist I know helped build regular scaling and polishing, to traced to the one-time, small, ne- dowments and grants some schools a lucrative practice upon his bite-wing x-rays, and to the pay- glected cavity. e·njoy, you then realize just how ability to meet this problem ment of adequate fees, he will
Silly, you say? Not at all! A hard the faculty has worked to squarely. He refused to "slide out have a patient who appreciates the few years ago one of our better- make this advancement in rating. from under" the obvious perio- value of every other dental service, known American dance-band lead- The Indiana State Dental Asso- dontal needs of his patients. And and who can be relied upon to buy ers died of a blood strean: infec- ciation is gratified to know that he recently said to me: "I de- dentistry in preference to many tion directly traced to an
~nfected
refresher courses are now being cided long ago to sell regular, other things. And he continued, tooth. Newsboys might have been given at the school for dentists re- thorough scaling ai:id polishing~o
that during the depression it was called "nuts" hadt~ey shout~d,
turning from the services and for my patients as a prophylactic mighty encouraging to have these"Da:nce-band leader dies of cavity civilian dentists. Alumni taking service, to develop in them a patients coming in regularly every in tooth." I've pointed out but one these courses will be amazed at ge·nuine appreciation of its values, six months, and some every four case; many more similar ones are the co·ntinued advancement made and to make this service yay. months, for thorough scaling and available in the literature. in dentistry since their graduation, There is no
~etter
way tobml~
a polishing. He used posterior bite-It's high time patients started even though they may have been good reputation, than by domg wings as a check on his scaling, seeing dentists for examination graduated as late as 1940. The well wha
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t the other .~ellow neglects and these frequently led to ap- and treatment at the age of three school is to be heartily con- or doesn t do at all. . pointments for fillings.
years and keep at it every three gratulated on this progressive All of us have seen this
t~ndency
Surel there isi food for thoughtmonths. Howard Raper said that step. toward neglect, perhaps rn our.- Y .
t.he prevention of caries was some- The school of dentistrv. has con- 1 I do not need to tell you in what has been said. P~ople are
se ves. . · · · t d t 1 offices now
thing to look forward to but the sistently helped with the annual how pernicious the habit of ne~- crowdmg 111 0 ~n a . · ' prevention of toothache was some- meetings of the state dental asso- lecting thorough prophyla.ctic and probably will contmue for a thing to do. Only by frequent ciation. They have always been treatment really is. The patient number of years to come. But now dental attention can Raper's truth- generous in making their tale'nt is the victim, and is almost cer- is the time. to get set .for .the host ful statement and challenge be ac- available for programs, and the tain to end up the way he started of econormc and social illnesses, complished. school has given clinic facilities life-without any teeth. Such an blown up by this early post-war, Dental decay has not been at the school on Thursday after- end stings the patient who re- inflationary period, when dentistry checked nor has its etiology been noons, as well as special lecture ceived regular dental trea~ment; will be crossed off of many family discovered. Its progress, however, clinic space the Sunday preceding it breeds resentmen~, and 1~ cer- budgets.
can be inhibited materially when the meeting. tainly does. not ~xc1te confide.nee If you fail to scale and polish patients start
~h~wing
.each other Dr. F. H. O'Halloran, executive in thed~nt1st
or in thep~·o.fess~o~.
adequately and regularly, if you their smallfillmgs-mstea~
of committeeman of the state asso- Now the general practitione1 is neglect the well-being of the perio- their dentures, crowns and bridges ciation has announced that the not entirely to blame, for most d t1
t" . Y
0
_. all of your
. - · ' . d t· t. on a issues in an .L
-with pride. program for the 1946 May meet- people buy preventive en is IY t" d .f you avoid Until the time that both pro- ing is progressing smoothly. Dr. very reluctantly and need a good ope~a ive p:·odce tur
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est, 1 t ts or f h'b"t t" O e is often sellmg peno on a rea men f . and public become "small Herbert Mason, master o ex I 1 s, push many 1mes. n t· t
1
~s~1on
. s" we ·ma well rest expects a very large array of ex- puzzled and embittered because fail to refer pa ien s ":' 10~ee
d f1llmg consc1ou Y . d hibits which he anticipates will patients don't eagerly buy a com- treatment by expertpeno~ont1sts,
assured that we . have fa1le overflow from the Riley Room plete dental service,
~sp~cially
at you aresidest~pping
periodontal miserably to make hfe pleasanter onto the mezzanine of the Clay- fees which pay. And 1t is. easy to disease and pullmg up at least one for each of us. More oral and gen- pool. Dr. Clyde T. Mayfield, mas- make the mistake of .cuttmg f~es good stake in the future.eral complications of dental path- ter of clinics, will have an abund- at the expense of ~uahty and seiv- Dr. Frank Longcamp, 1 be prevented by the in- ance of good table clinics. ice. The first cu~ is ne~rly always Aurora, Indiana.
o ogy sertion of small fillings that ca'Il be can Every md1cation . . . pomts . to a rec- m · th prophylactic service. Scalers e
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I
A Case Rep: ort on
Hairy Tongue
The Effect of Time and Temperature Upon the Growth of Lactobacillus Acidophilus in Saliva
the index determination when the
Dental School Now All-Civilian
specimens are sent through the mail by observing the effects of time and temperature upon the growth of the initial number of Lactobacilli found m the oral cav-
The student body of the School of Dentistry became all-civilian for the first time since July, 1943, when the second semester opened.
ity at the time the saliva is col- By Janet M. Smolelis 1 d
(The following is reprinted in part ecte . In making this investiga- from the Florida State Dental So- The effect of the bacteria Lac- tion the writer has tried, as nearly ciety, Dec., 1945.) tobacillus acidophilus, upo~ the as possible, to duplicate in the
Since the middle of the 1943 most of the students of the school have been in either army or navy uniforms and under military ser~
ice direction. The army discon- tinued its dental student training program last August. The navy discontinued its program as of Dec. 21.
- - - - The patient was admitted to the incidence of dental caries has re- laboratory those conditions to
hospital on May 23 with an admis- cently received much attention. At which a saliva sample is subjected sion diagnosis of "Tumor of the the present time, several universit- in going through the mail.
Tongue". He was sent to the den- ies and laboratories throughout . This study was made on twenty- tal clinic on May 24 for routine the country are conducting a car- five. dental students over a period examination and for consultation ies control service. This service of five months. A preliminary test
on the tongue condition. He wears has be.en instituted with the hope was run on each subject and only
New Orthodontia; Head·
a full vulcanite denture. of curbing cases of rampant car- tho_se studer..ts were selected whose The tongue is partially covered ies. Saliva can be collected for sahva showed the presence of the with a hairy appearing coating in analysis either by having the pa- Lactobacillus organism. One sam- the center posterior two-thirds of tient personally· visit the caries ple was used for each of the. four the tongue and was heavy in the control clinic or by having a con- g:o.ups into whi~h this work was median fissure and diminished to- tainer with detailed instructions d1v1ded. Bacterial counts were ward the periphery. Patient com- paraffin, and sterile bottle mailed made by having each individual plained of no discomfort or· pain, to him. The patient is instructed chew a piece of paraffin weigh- but was deeply concerned over the to chew vigorously the two gram ing 2._o grams .for five minutes, growth. The Circumvallette papil- paraffin sample one hundred times collectmg the stimulated saliva in lae were distended and red. The on each side of the mouth and to a sterile test tube.
entire coating was brown to a salivate into the sterile bottle. The samples of saliva tested deep black. The sample is then mailed back to were subjected to four variances The patient is seventy-six years the caries control laboratory. of ti~e and temperatures. After
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the effects of surgical correction of malocclusions on functions of the resulting face, correction o:f distortion in fro.nfal and _]atera l
cephalometric head plates.
Organizations of which Dr. Ad- ams is a member include: The American Dental Association, The Angle Society of Orthodontists, International Association for Den- tal Research, American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and Omicron Kappa Upsilon. His clinical ex- perience before societies has been vast and includes the chairman- ship of the U.S. Army Clinics for the Midwinter Meeting of the Chicago Dental Society.
old, male, and of modest means. Most of the saliva which is an- collectmg the subject's saliva, it He is a heavy smoker. According alyzed is received through the mail w~s divided into four groups. The to his admission, he smokes about rather than by being collected dir- aliquots were one cc each. Group eight to ten cigars a day. Physical- ectly from the patient in the lab- I contained samples used as con- ly the patient has no serious ill- oratory. In samples received trols. Group II containing the sec- ness. He has a slight hypertension through the mail there is an un- ond one cc aliquots was incubated and some arterio sclerotic degener- avoidable delay of at least twenty- for twenty-four hours at 37 de- ation. He is still of a keen mind. four hours before the specimen grees C. In Group III the samples
After due examination of the can be tested. This immediately of saliva were held for ninety-six
D D
patient, it was decided that the brings to mind the question, "How hours at room temperature and in
r. a 1 vis Appointed
condition was the result of irri- reliable is a count made after Group IV forty-eight hours at 8 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
tation from exc.ess smoking. This twenty-four hours?" This time ele- degrees C. _Each sample, after be-
condition is known as "Hairy ment is very likely to be an im- ing incubated the designated per- woman to be appointed to the fac- Tongue" and has been described portant factor in the growth of iod of time, was mixed with nine ulty of the school of dentistry.
in Thoma's "Oral Pathology" and the initial
numbe~
of Lactobacillus cc dextrose broth and one-tenth Dr. Davis was graduated from Mead's "Diseases of the Mouth". ::tcidophilus orga·nisms. Also in this of the mixture inoculated on ·a Indiana Dental College and since It is a condition of thickening and twenty-four hour, or longer: period tomato juice agar plate acco:·ding that time has been specializing in?roliferation of the filliform pap- the laboratory has no knowledge to the method described by Had- the field of periodontia. She has illae of the tongue, and occasional- of the temperature to which the ley. After a five day incubation
lic~ns:s
toprac~ice
in Michigan, ly~ill
involve the circumvallette sample might have been subjected. period, the agar plates were count- Illmois,an~ ~nd1ana.
papillae. The condition arises quite Should the saliva sample be sub- ed for the number of L. acidophi- Dr._ Davis IS a member_ of the suddenly starting
.wi~h
a wh.ite :ected to an optimum temperature luso:gani~ms
perc~.
The number American. Academy ofPenodo~1to
patch and developmg the hairy for bacterial growth, the number of acidophilus orgamsms per cc 011 logy, I;i-idrnna s.tate D_ental Society, mass. The dark color comes from of organisms would be increased
plate~
from the control, Group I, of ';hichs~e.
IScha1r~an
of thethe nicotine stain. immeasurably. For example, it has
w~s ~o~pared wit~
the number of Radio PublicityC~mmittee, Bus~-
Treatment- been noted that bacterial counts acidophilus orgamsms per cc in ness and Prof ess1onal Women s On May 24th the tongue was made during the summer
month~
Groups II, III and IV. Club of Indianapolis, and the Wo- scraped with a large sharp edged increased considerably. This i.n- Results of this study show the men's Rotary Club ofIndianapoli~.
curette and the tongue and mouth crease in number of bacteria may following: The saliva held for
were sprayed with "Periodon". On be do to: an increase in tempera- twenty-four hours at 37 degrees 8 degrees C. before diluting with May 26th there was little evidence ture, the length of time a specimen C., or Group II, shows twice as dextrose broth and plating on to- of the hairy appearing mass, but is held, a varied dietary intake, or many organisms per cc as Group mato juice agar. This variance be- the tongue was once more scraped a combination of all three of the I, the control. The greatest in- tween the four groups was not and followed with the "Periodon" foregoing. It was the purpose of crease in organisms per cc is a constant one. It appears a:-;
sp~ay. Th~ patien: volunteered to this report to test the validity of sho.wn in Group III, the aliquots though it is not merely a matter qmt smokmg entirely and really which were held ninety-six hours of multiplication and death of bac-
~tuck to his bargain. On June 18th he returned for re- at room temperature. This group teria dependent upon the time and On May 27th the tongue had a examination. The tongue was quite showed an average increase of 27 temperature factors involved. Be- healthy pink appearance, and there normal in appearance. The circum- times_ the number of organisms cause there is this fluctuation in was a complete absence of the vallete papillae were also normal founa in the control. Group IV the number of organisms after the growth. The spray of "Periodon" in appearance. Patient stated that showe~ a decrease in number of twenty-four hour period, it would was used again. he had not smoked since May 24th ~~gt~n:s,:1ll~t. pler ~~ wheAn compared seem safe to say that the most On May 28th the patient was Case closed. . ly p . i;id ia ctu ul;e. s previous- accurate saliva analysis is ma<le
rl. . d f th d t 1 l' . I . om e ou ' a iquots m Group before the sample is more than yism1sse rom e en a c m1c. Capt. Dudley S. Moore('44): IV were held forty-ei'ght hours at twenty-four hours old.
