vcntive techniques and messnrcmcnts in family healtll care, according to Dr. Gerrie. The dental clinic is expected t,o constit,utc a form of group practice, and although one dentist will be the “family dentist,” hc can refer patients t,o other de&i&s in the clinic or to outsitle specialists. This is tqwctod to enhance thr: establishment and maintenance of “warm, personal cart’” at an acceptable level. Salaried dentists and staffs in public clinics frequently do not ohscrve this principle when the incentive of financia,l remuneration is not directly related to dentist-patient personal relationships and the patients are known to be wards of the government or recipients of welfare assistance. The Effect of irradiation
on Developing
By Joan Weyman.. Oral Swg., 623-629, April, 1968.
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When tumors of the face are treated with various forms of irradiation, the teeth must lie almost inevitably in t,he path of at least some of the rays. In the young child the exposure may result in interference with dental development to a varying degree. The effect of low-dosage irradiation on developing teeth at the center of a.pplication is similar to that which occurs if the dental development area is at the periphery of a. sphere of heavy dosage. There was earlier eruption at the affected site, with slightly advanced root completion. The fact that this effect was so slight presumably accounts for the lack of observable shortening of the roots. A result not previously recorded was defective enamel on two deciduous and first permanent molars in the quadrant affected. At the age of 5 months, when the irradiation took place, the crown of the first deciduous molar was not quite complete and that of the second molar was only half developed. The first permanent molar began its mineralization at birth, and at 5 months the cusps were not yet joined. The ground s&ions of the mandibular first permanent molars showed no evidence of hypoplasia or disturbed lines in the enamel but, clinically, the enamel of the left molar was very poorly mineralized and withstood the oral hazards badly. Examination Surfaces Deutsche
and Evaluation of the Position of the Occlusal Plane and Occlusal With the Ear-Nose Plane From the Prosthetic Facial Point Zahn. Ztschr. 23: 449-459, April, 1968.
According to statements in the literature, Camper’s plane or the nasoauricular line and the masticatory plane are not uniformly defined. In 170 cases (some living persons and some skulls), chosen without regard to sex and age, the mutual position of the masticatorp plane and the naso-auricular line was examined. The extent of deviations was expressed in degrees of an angle, and it was determined separately whether these planes meet, after prolongation frontally or dorsally. It was found that the masticatory plane does not run parallel with the naso-auricular line and that the point of intersection lies sometimes frontally and sometimes dorsally. This correlation, therefore, cannot be used for the positioning of the occlusal surfaces of premolar sand molars.