TY - JOUR
AB -  DETECTION OF POTENTIAL DENTAL CAVITIES BY IONIZING RADIATION DEVICE Equipment designed to examine lunar soil samples soon may be used to find potential dental cavities by workers in The University of Chicago's Zoller Dental Clinic. An “ionizing radiation detector” produced by the General Electric Corporation (GE), is being modified to study the density of tooth enamel in a project involving personnel from the University's Departments of Radiology and Geophysical Sciences as well as the Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic and GE. The project is funded by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. “When fully operational, the probe will enable us to spot areas on individual teeth where the enamel has started to dissolve and where dental decay is almost certain to start, even before there are any physical changes or decay that can be detected by current methods,” Dr. Frank C. Besic said. Dr. Besic is Professor of Dental Surgery in the Walter G. Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic of the University's Division of the Biological Sciences and The Pritzker School of Medicine. “This will allow us to take such steps as treatment with fluorides to prevent cavities from starting.” The device consists of a radioactive isotope, a radiation detector, 
TI - NEWS AND NOTICES
JF - Journal of American Geriatrics Society
DO - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1971.tb02435.x
DA - 1971-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/news-and-notices-zEe8zhG05D
SP - 812
EP - 816
VL - 19
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -