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Educational moving picture for orthodontia
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Editorials
Educational Moving Picture for Orthodontia OME TH ING new in the way of orthodontic education for the layman and for office or classroom instruction has been created by Thomas B. McCrum, D.D.S., of Kansas City, Missouri. It is in the form of a sixteen m.m, moving picture which requires about sixteen minutes for projection. The film, entitled "Betty's Crooked Teeth," opens with a classroom scene in the seventh grade. An underprivileged or handicapped child is shown, revealing a bad and unsightly case of malocclusion. The child is plainly perturbed as to whether or not it will be necessary for her to continue throughout her lifetime with this deformity. A close-up shot directly into her mouth shows the so-called crooked teeth as they actually appear to the casual observer. An educational dialogue is conducted in which it is pointed out that it is quite possible to correct conditions of this kind in children's mouths, and that to do so requires a period of months of systematic and careful treatment. Another scene shows the same child after appliances are adjusted, and subsequent shots are taken periodically during the course of treatment. A shot is taken at the completion of the case and shows the patient with a normal occlusion of the teeth. In the last scene of the picture the patient appears as a matured young lady, holding down a responsible position as secretary, greeting' the customers with a happy "dental" smile, and exposing an occlusion and a symmetry of teeth which would be the envy of the advertising manager for any tooth paste or even of a particular and painstaking orthodontist. The film is of interest because it is new, because it has apparently taken a number of years to prepare, and because it tells the orthodontic story in sixteen minutes.
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H. C. P.
Editorials
Educational Moving Picture for Orthodontia OME TH ING new in the way of orthodontic education for the layman and for office or classroom instruction has been created by Thomas B. McCrum, D.D.S., of Kansas City, Missouri. It is in the form of a sixteen m.m, moving picture which requires about sixteen minutes for projection. The film, entitled "Betty's Crooked Teeth," opens with a classroom scene in the seventh grade. An underprivileged or handicapped child is shown, revealing a bad and unsightly case of malocclusion. The child is plainly perturbed as to whether or not it will be necessary for her to continue throughout her lifetime with this deformity. A close-up shot directly into her mouth shows the so-called crooked teeth as they actually appear to the casual observer. An educational dialogue is conducted in which it is pointed out that it is quite possible to correct conditions of this kind in children's mouths, and that to do so requires a period of months of systematic and careful treatment. Another scene shows the same child after appliances are adjusted, and subsequent shots are taken periodically during the course of treatment. A shot is taken at the completion of the case and shows the patient with a normal occlusion of the teeth. In the last scene of the picture the patient appears as a matured young lady, holding down a responsible position as secretary, greeting' the customers with a happy "dental" smile, and exposing an occlusion and a symmetry of teeth which would be the envy of the advertising manager for any tooth paste or even of a particular and painstaking orthodontist. The film is of interest because it is new, because it has apparently taken a number of years to prepare, and because it tells the orthodontic story in sixteen minutes.
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H. C. P.