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And it's your life a program that can only be as cruel as life itself here's a lady who just this minute had all her remaining offer and part of her lower teeth removed Don Herbert asked her a question and she gives him the last answer you'd expect to hear what are you going to do when you leave the office here I'm going to have don't need to share and have any practice. That's right she just had her teeth taken out new dentures put in immediately and she's going out to lunch it's a fantastic story it may happen to you it's your life is brought to you in transcription by Johnson and Johnson makers of Red Cross cause bandage Ben they did he said bandage another first aid products serving the medical profession in the homes of America since eighteen eighty six fits your life is the program that tells the actual story of the things that happen in your life and in the lives of people around you Don Herbert takes his tape recorder on the scene to bring you real people during moments of their greatest real life drama every program is revealed by a board of outstanding doctors now here is your producer Ben park to continue with today's story it's every day things that often make up life's greatest problems that contribute to the life story of you and me and the way we actually live these lives of ours every day things like eating for instance my lower teeth were had disappeared in my upper teeth and headers were loose from pyorrhea I guess. I couldn't buy anything crisper or soggy edges brilliant white bread I couldn't eat white bread in fact that's why I broke two of my teeth off even quite brave the crest of white grocer the soft part good night. What did you eat. Well I think cornflakes bananas increase ice cream well did not affect your healthy eating just goes all naturally naturally I went from about one hundred seventy five down to about one hundred forty eight I was lucky to. Have any ambition. I just position and my disposition wasn't very good she said if you don't go and get your teeth fixed you can go out on a ranch and live there by yourself so you won't be crap at me all day. But what you feel the way you look and the way you get along with people that are the most important things there every day things here's a man who describes his looks in this just to say look on sac. And steer your mouth or a certain extent to take in the water like that but to stand up and talk to people and have them smile once in awhile open your mouth. You know very presentable when you have a mouthful of Holden's to the teeth there I might have had better jobs right along if I had my have my parents improved. When the front of your face is marred by a snarl of unsightly teeth that can make a lot of difference to the way you live your life in the past people of dread of the idea of getting false teeth or dentures because of a long period of time during which they must go around with no teeth at all and it has not always been comfortable either having new dentures podium but now today and throughout recent years a miracle has been developing in modern dental science I mean that may happen to you if you want to you have to come out the miracle is something called immediate dentures and they see how the story goes we're going to follow a young wife and mother right through the whole process she still has her own teeth as you talk to her right now Don Herbert asks a question for you or tell me when you look in the mirror how do your teeth look to you know well they don't look so good in fact I'm saying the smile half the time they're kind of yellowish and they're crooked but tonight me Lauren and crisis on this thing doesn't know about the decay part well it shows through and in the front along with your teeth going like that for and same for that they are five years now how has the appearance of your teeth affected you in the last five years and I think it makes you tell catches you know I don't. Take an active pardon thing as you would if he were here if teeth were in good condition what would you like to take part in that you don't because of these two you well I like to be active and I need you like to be active in the P.T.A. I fell for it and I go Well I go but I'm not active I like to be active. If your children ever said anything to you about your piece and my oldest daughter has she asked me why I don't have them stick to ask me Mommy why don't you smile I see other ladies do because I always be there I hide my mouth or I just I don't often and I have explained it to have told her why she asked and she tells me why don't I get teased like daddy and he had to dance to. What finally made you decide that you were going to have something done about wow like I said I want to take active part in as long as my little girl is just starting school I want to be active with her I think whatever you do affects your children because the children look up to you for their. Leadership and just for an example of that leadership How about your children's T.V. I take them everything they have their teeth checked and brushing they brush and they thought I had to get them to do it well I just explain to him that they have teeth like I have they didn't and that made the impression. Specially now they're more conscious of their teeth and they don't want to it's rather drastic way to get your children to burst to you know yeah. I don't know. But mother herself is going to have her teeth fixed as her daughter puts it she's going to have immediate dentures so that when she goes in the dentist's office and when she comes out she'll have a set of teeth in her mouth both times except when she comes out she'll have a better set but how is this going to happen or they're going to pull the uppers and then. Put the man put the teeth in assuming they take the effort now they fix whatever teeth you would have and then. They take the impression and then when you can and to have the remaining upper teeth well then they put your dentures right and that's about all I know until like period that you know you're going to have a chance to choose what your teeth are going to look like. What are you going to choose. Well I'm going to leave that up to the dentist because I think you know it's more what I need than I do you if you want your teeth to be the same color as the ones you've got now well whatever you think you can. I don't know too much about it and I'm going to have someone that had the experience and. Yes it's the ordinary things the every day things that make the difference in real life it's things like bad teeth that make the difference to a mother who wants to be able to participate in school activities with her daughter who wants her daughter to be proud of her in just a minute I'll tape recorder will have jumped over two weeks in time you'll be at the dentist's office and you'll witness mother's amazing experience of having a roll teeth out and new teeth in in something like twenty minutes right now here's Tony Parrish with an important message from Johnson and Johnson ask any Boy Scout the route he lives by and he'll answer be prepared well let's go to advice at all times and especially when first aid treatment is needed the best way to be prepared for any minor emergency is to keep your medicine cabinet supplied with Johnson and Johnson first aid credit they'll be an indispensable aid and creating small injuries such as cuts scratches and burns for instance Red Cross gauze bandage comes in a sealed sanitary Box one hundred percent stereo tested under the most rigid Johnson and Johnson laboratory conditions get a box of Red Cross gauze bandages today no connection whatever with the American National Red Cross remember the name Johnson and Johnson your guarantee of quality. And now he has been parked ready to take you into a dentist's office in today's chapter of it's your life but before we go into the office a word of explanation mother is going to have a full upper denture and a partial lower dentures already six weeks ago the dentist extracted all the back teeth that had to come out as she comes into the office this morning mother will still have all of her own front teeth these front teeth are the ones which will be replaced with the immediate denture there are many kinds of immediate dentures in this one the front teeth of mother's upper plate will have little pigs which go directly into the sockets left by her own teeth so that her own gums will actually cover over the roots of the immediate denture during the dentist's office now mother just walked in the door you ask her Did you take a good look at a mirror this morning yeah thank you thank you but. Then just do it and I put everything in it which isn't searing. For hiring. The road sixty in the front. And he's pushing the plunger. What does it feel like on my. Lap and if it. Doesn't look any different. Different. You know what's going to happen. He's going to call them now and then or and then I can put the new teeth in right away I have no idea he had them. Yes they have. You are now they don't show her the new piece before you probably don't know every Don't. Have first time she sees me when she opens her mouth after she you put them in yes. Another dentist quickly extract the six front upper teeth each of them comes out easily and painlessly and the next thing you hear Don Herbert is asking everyone what looks like a little dust or what you're putting dust on various places where the people worry what are you doing this is a combination of can use it in time and success and in the mind in order to prevent possible infection after. Now. And now we close this with some oxidize cellulose over a blood clot will be established firmly in the expection. As you can see it clots comedically answer is. To say. There's almost no bleeding at all no there's practically no bleeding there. That comes. The new dentures. You just put in the lowers are right this is a little partial venture in the immediate for prevention. To describe them as as the dentist is putting them in. They look just like teeth that came out except they're not. For cavities or this edges we saw before the teeth came out and on the top of each one I was a little tough to keep in the bench or. So little while it's almost a pig like. You so having teeth that stopped right at the gum line these are little pigs which go up into the opening left by the tooth. Got in place. Just. That I think them. Funny. How long has it been since you had a mouthful of these. I don't know I exactly. Feel kind of funny now I mean you sound like an old difficulty talking you know you're still. On the Dr is now. Said twenty two my total thirty three thirty three forty four quite far sixty five sixty six sixty six Mississippi Mississippi sixty six sixty six what I said again sixty six. Sixty six. What do you have Jack in that. Checking the finance he ation whether there's any interference with the speech and if necessary adjustments can be made. And I would like to see this but in general I share what I had. Reaching around behind an opening and draw or. Taking out of marriage. Oh and then the field of thought. Wonderful. Now there is one thing you cannot take these teeth on for the next forty eight hours because if you do it will never get them back in again it might be some citing there and it may not go to places anymore. So leave the mean and I will take them out here and clean them for you or and give you your first adjustment tomorrow in the mean time leave them in on all the time. I requested in the future there won't be necessary to do that well it should be able to take them out and clean anytime soon after after forty eight hours on the for the first forty eight hours they should stay in. Your home habits now so that you want to have any pain in the injection wears off. And you may take some more tablets home if necessary because I want to have any pain of course you don't take anything. But take these two right now and now you turn your attention to the lady with the new teeth us OK now what are you going to do here your got your new dentures in and it's taken all I'd say roughly twenty minutes or so. You're ready to leave now what are you going to do when you leave the office here while I'm going to have something to eat. Sharon didn't have any breakfast. Well that's all we have to do. You can take your teeth here in a Thank You have a good lunch. And we will see you later this afternoon for your first just went. OK Thank you all right. Now you had no way the about smiling right now you know there is a majority and I feel like smiling. You think you'll be able to go to a P.T.A. meeting that I was sure if there was one I would. Talk very well it sounds exactly like you did before so evidently you are using the do exactly as you did you either yes I am. Now once again the tape recorder takes you ahead quickly in time it's two weeks later you'll remember as we left mother immediately after getting her new denture put in she said she was going out to lunch so you ask from the time then that we left you in the dentist's office you went out to lunch first day what did you have for lunch Well I had a combination salad and coffee and that's all I had because naturally being side I wasn't very hungry but after I had chop suey for supper that night and I was able to handle a very good what is the most difficult food you've eaten since you've been. Around I can. Kind of flat side down the so difficult. But I managed an aright. Have you been since then. They've been fine I've had no trouble at all and I'm back I have no pain you know and after I want to home after him eventually went home the last time was I just went right to work it's nothing it happened where if I had would have worked or not as I suppose I would have gone home and you know I would have gone to the asses and work instead I just went home maybe I work even harder than if I would gone to the office you know if you smile more all and definitely much more. About your friends your husband of a say anything oh yes my husband my ex and very much she says that they've done a lot for me so far and people have been amazed they don't believe that I have to but what does her six year old daughter Billie you'll remember the reason she decided to have immediate dentures was because her little girl was embarrassed about her teeth and because mother felt too that she wouldn't be able to participate in school activities now that her daughter was ready to start the first grade so next to talk to a very important person the six year old daughter us Ker how the new teeth look because they were clean and they were rotten as a one click plot they didn't let me well. Since And I thought when he kept his he was very very very picky Have you noticed any difference in your mother since she got her new teeth to the kid to now so face she's new face OK. And now do you remember all those people you heard at the beginning of today's program each one of them had a bad personal problem as the result of bad teeth well every one of those people has had a media dentures Let's find out what's happened to them as a result first there was a man whose wife told me to have to move to Arizona his disposition didn't improve he lost thirty pounds because he couldn't eat and he says that right after his immediate dentures were put in this doctor had an assistant and she said why they look beautiful you know that's. Will I. Think look beautiful. When you got a chance to get out of the chair or when the doctor when the dentist. When the dentist held a mirror for your luck did you agree with her Oh I certainly I could say so it was so much better the other was that I had. About that disposition Well I guess it's improving. Even your wife doesn't want you to move back to that rational you know although she has says a lot lately. Next was a man who said his appearance was indescribable Now he tells you a little story about a girl who worked where he did it seems that one day she said she should you know rather you have your face your teeth six years of reading then you're pretty nice for jeez I consider going out with you so that's why I had them put in that day I went down to work. And Larry Myers if you remember a couple months ago I said you. You tell me if I had my teeth fixed you consider going out with a. She said Yeah I remember it I said well if you take go forty five hours a day of I'm. Over you. If you got out with us then you know she's not my type. Not everybody can have immediate dentures certain conditions may prevent you from getting them Your dentist will be the man who knows whether or not immediate dentures offer you one thing everybody can do is take care of his teeth recently the press has been full of the glowing accounts of several new types of benefits is designed to help you save your teeth it's your life wanted to find out for you just exactly how much faith can be put in the publisher he claims for these various new Potters and tastes and dental treatments so Don Herbert takes his tape recorder to talk with an expert one of the nation's leading authorities first of all I think it might be well first of point out why teeth P.K.. And we should point out that the cavities develop in areas on the tooth surface where bacteria can accumulate and can remain for relatively long periods of time undisturbed the bacteria act upon fermentable material particularly sugar they produce acid as a result of this action and acid is the substance that will dissolve the tooth tissue it's now been what is the best way to prevent that acid from forming one of the best I believe is the reduction in the amount of fermentable material that we take into the mouth I'm thinking particularly sugar been shown that if a person who has decaying teeth rinses his mouth with a sugar solution that within forty five minutes there is sufficient acid formed on the two surface to begin the slow dissolution of the two tissue. We've got to brush the teeth very soon after we use them and to I don't think the toothbrushes been used efficiently the areas where cavities occur bacteria can accumulate are not like to be touched by the superficial brushing and in order to point out to these individuals where these areas are they should go to their dentist because each one of us has a different accumulation pattern for these bacterial films all right now using the brush correctly is one thing how about toothpaste powders Well the one we've been particularly interested in of course is the ammonia we've been very much encouraged by our preliminary observations of laboratory studies in the test tube and by what we have observed in individuals who had decaying to see what effect it had on them but to make our study significant we must use a large group of people and we must study them over a long period of time. And at the end of next March about a year from now we believe that we will have an accurate idea of how effective ammonia in a dentist can be if it's properly used I want some of the other scientific developments in that same problem well there have been a number of things advocated recently for decay control one's fluorine. That is a material that seems to combine with the tooth tissue to make it more resistant to the attack of carries and it's painted on the two surface about four applications and they're spaced from two to eight days apart done by the dentist because it must be done carefully and it must be done with a clean dry to surface and it seems to reduce decay about forty percent in large groups large numbers of individuals but there's a wide individual variation some people it helps considerably other people it doesn't seem to aid materially. The preliminary results here look inter-regional but much more data is going to have to be accumulated from this use of this material before we will know how effective it is and that's true of the most recent of the developments in the dental decay control field that is chlorophyll our fellows been on for many years to have added bacterial action and it's now being used in Denver first form to determine what effect it may have on the decay process in the test tube it looks good and from some preliminary clinical work that's been done it's interesting but here again a lot more study must be given the use of this material before we can tell the public how good it is in reducing decay activity as a dentist is really the only one can detect whether decay is occurring or not if the patient becomes aware of it then there has been considerable damage done but I do think we have the room means of reducing. The K. activity but those methods require the conscientious and constant cooperation of the individual and that's why I'm afraid we won't be rid of dental decay for a good many years to come because the individual will be required to perform certain acts for himself and to do them conscientiously. How about those twice a year dental checks if you're a family dentist if you don't here's a phone number to take down state to seventy nine to five that's the phone number of the Chicago dental society they'll give you a choice of names of qualified dentists in any area of the city if you want to take treatment in the loop tell them you do or if you want to take treatment of your own neighborhood they'll give you names of dentists nearby and that's a hard number state to seven nine to five better write it down state two seven nine to five. Next week a flight into one of the most dramatic surgical operations known to mankind an experience you won't want to miss it's an operation that has to do with new life I'll be back to tell you about in just a minute now here's another important message from Johnson and Johnson in the voice of Tony Parrish say I'll bet if there's one subject in school that causes more headaches than any other it's geometry I remember well I used to worry and worry about I was going to prove a theory. I'll just shows what a difference a few years can make nowadays I don't have to worry about proof at all not when I talk about Johnson and Johnson products because they're the kind of products that prove themselves all I have to do is tell you for instance that Band-Aid and he's a vendor just our preferred in eight out of ten homes where he said bandages are you what other proof do you need of their quality than they did he said bandages come to you one hundred percent stero and individually wrapped in a convenient easy to open wrap you'll find them indispensable in treating minor injuries like scratches and burns they take just a jiffy to apply and once on they stay on until you take them off remember that trademark Band-Aid means made by Johnson and Johnson the largest manufacturers of first aid products in the world its your life is produced by the Chicago industrial Health Association in cooperation with the leading health and medical agencies of Metropolitan Chicago a board of medical advisors reviews the content of each program before it goes on the air. Now here's Ben park with a clue to the excitement of next week's program it was almost two thousand years ago that a famous man gave his name to the dramatic surgical operation you'll hear on next week's program here's a part of that program only twenty minutes have gone by and the baby's already been delivered and they're almost finished restoring a computer that's just correct back a scary thing when asked if they said the baby was born six minutes after. The obstetrician started. Yes it's the way Caesar was born almost two thousand years ago next week the birth of a baby Bice's arean Section one of the most intensely dramatic operations performed by modern surgery and an operation that is today as safe as any you'll talk to the mother both before and after the baby is born you will witness the dramatic moment when the operating crew anxiously awaits the baby's first cry you will talk with a father and tell him about his new baby you will live through a great experience without any fear but with a great sense of amazement and intense human interest now again Tony Farrish it's your life is brought to you in transcription by Johnson and Johnson the largest manufacturers of first aid products in the world Johnson and Johnson makers of Van dated he's advantages preferred in eight out of ten homes where he's advantages are you've been dated he's a vendor just come to you one hundred percent stereo and individually wrapped in a convenient easy to open raffle remember to take care of all your medicine cabinet needs look for the name that stands for quality for Johnson and Johnson think this is totally Parish saying thank you for the staff of it's your life thank you for your letters and suggestions they help us bring you the things you feel are the most important parts of your own life. And don't forget to make a note to listen next Sunday at three thirty Central daylight time two thirty Central Standard Time because you know the more you listen the more you realize it's your life through.