AS DEEP-VOICED as Dr. Hartman and as hale and hearty is Dr. George B. Winter of Washington University school of dentistry, St. Louis. Like his confrere, Dr. Winter has been a relentless scholar. The object of his study for eighteen years has been the impacted third molar. No cruel chiseling of the tooth is Dr. Winter's method. From X-rays he builds a painstaking campaign of removal.
But Dr. Winter remained long a prophet without honor in the profession. He lectured on the one tooth in America and England. He wrote a 835-page volume and made sound movies to show how the offending wisdom tooth can be quickly extracted without the usual danger of butchery. Once taken for a quack, so revolutionary was his discovery, he is now president of the American Dental Association, and owns the 1933 Newell Jenkins award for "outstanding contributions in dental science," for all of which Dr. Winter,
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