Camp Adair Sentry
Friday. April 14, 1944.
Page Five
3 POST DENTAL CLINICS KEEP YOUR TEETH Gl
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Boast Best Dentists,
Finest of Equipment
'Operative Dentistry' on the Line at Dental Clinic 1 South
Teeth are something in the Army that everybody has
in common.
And there is one thing that the Army has at
splendidly designed to take care*---------------------------------
of teeth, and that is our Post dental n
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clinics. There are no less than
three Clinics with no less than 62
chairs to serve you. when the old
molars show even the faintest.
signs of ache or pain.
Dental Clinics of the Post are I
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under the direction of Col. Richard
Equipment used and the person-
B. Pool, Camp Dental Surgeon.
who use
>n thc dental work
Two of the clinics are 24-chair clin- on GIs at Camp Adair are tops,
ies—D-C-l South, where Capt. R. Thii' is revealed in* explanation
A. Carson is Chief Clinician, and from the office of Col. Richard B.
D-C-l North under Major F. C. fool, Camp Dental Surgeon, that
Montgomery. D-C-2, under Capt. a11 S«nior Ritter equipment is in
Adrian Wilson, is a 14-chair clinic. stalled at Camp Adair’s three
clinics.
It’s On Form 79
All the officer dentists are top
Everything about your teeth in
the Army is on your Form 79, and, notch men who were either general
brother, it’s complete. Here's about practitioners or specialists in civil
the way your dental life in the ian life. All assistants are care
fully trained. In the prosthetic de
Army goes:
As men come in, a dental survey partment, especially, all assistants
is made, after which there is a have undergone special school
periodic re-check, and care is taken training. It is in prosthetics where
that the dental survey does not bridge work, inlays and artificial
interfere with the training pro- dentures are made,
gram of a soldier.
Yanks To The Yanks
traction is made.
You are first given a thorough
After this is given due time to
oral examination. If dental work .heal, you are taken to the Pros
is needed, it proceeds immediate thetic department. Here you get
ly. If you need a filling, jou are your GI denture; bridge, partial
sent to what is known as the plate or whatever is necessary. If
"operative room.” Now, sup I the extraction is severe enough,
posing No. 14 molar, low el left, you are hospitalized and further
has to be yanked out. you are work is done at the Station Hospi j
taken to Surgery, and the ex- tal Clinic.
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■ OSc LalmtCS
r,ne»r Equipment
BeSt DentlStS
Star Chamber for Scon-to-be Dental Patients
Siffnnl C wt * Photc
THE FIRST THING you do on going to the Dental Clinic
is sit down and wait. And u-ually. as this picture shows, the wait
ing room is pretty well filled.
Need a Little Filling in Your Tooth?
AirnM Cnrjw» Phnt®
THERE’S NOBODY TO PLAY a stand-in part for the lead role when you sit in the dentist's
chair. You are it. and here are show*six of the 24 chairs installed and pretty usually occupied at
D-C-l South, one of three clinics at this Post.
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Applications for Gas
To Be Made on Post
This Is Called Oral Examination
Ration Boards Will
Not Handle Renewals
The newly-formed Camp Adair i
Plant Area Board has been created
expressly for the purpose of pro
cessing gasoline and tire rationing
applications made by all military
and civilian personnel stationed
here. The office of the board is
located in the Rail Transportation
Office, opposite Post Headquarters.
Ration boards in nearby towns
will no longer handle applications
of persons whose claims arc based
on the fact that they are stationed
or employed at Camp Adair.
The Post board, which met for j
the first time April 7, consists of |
Lt. Col. Eugene I. Foster. Post Ex
ecutive Officer; Capt. Gilliert A. '
Waite, Director of Personnel; ,
E. L. Cramblitt. Chief Civilian Per
Sign al Corpa Photo
sonnel; Lt. M. 8. Francis, 70th Div.
WHILE ASSIST \NT. I’fc. Bill Terri», jot. down the answers
on Form 79. Capt. R. A. Caron calls off the tooth situation. As
Ass’t Judge Advocate; Capt. Welby
soup as the patient is logged, the necessary dental work proceeds.
E.. Abrams, Station Hospital Reg
istrar; and Capt. George W. Scott,
or stay at this post.
Post Transportation Officer.
'Morale Work' Done On
Any person desiring a ride may
Foi convenience hospital person
Teeth of Many GIs by
register
at
the
Rail
Transportation
nel may obtain their applications
Office
and
any
driver
who
has
va
from Capt. Abrams; 70th Division
Post Clinic Dentists
personnel may get theirs at the of cancies for passengers sbhuld nt-
fice of Lt. Francis; the Post Engi inter su<-J> vacancies at the Rail
Bad teeth can still be your un
neer office has a supply for its em Transportation Office.
doing and bad-looking teeth are
ployees; and. of course, at tile Rail
bad socially, so, whenever possible,
Tiansportation Office.
the dentists of Camp Adair try to
Must Carry Full Load
Final taix on inteinnrent condi- see that your touth situation is well
Capt. Scott is most emphatic
in hand.
in declaring that every car must , tions under Jap rule will be given
In many cases, though a soldier
I
by
Rev.
H.
A.
Park,
Gripsholm
re
cacry a full passenger load in
order that the application might patriate, Sunday night, 1945, at the lacks a couple of teeth due to caus
(Evangelistic Christian Center for es beyond his control or otherwise,
be favorably considered.
All renewals must be accompan service men, Third and Adams, Cor he can chew just as well. There
ied by the cover to tire last Supple vallis. Service men and their wives fore, to all intents and pui poses
mental Ration issued and all appli 'are welcomed at the Center, open he’s still a good soldier and the Ar
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my wouldn't have to do anything
cations both SUPPLEMENTAL 1300 daily.
about it. The Dental Clinic, how
AND RENEWALS must lie accom
ever, goes ahead and does a great
panied by the Tire Inspection Or Tickling—Ritchie Row
Houston, Tex. (CNS)—There is .leal of bridge work and makes spe
All Supplemental Ration« mint a city ordinance here which pro- cial dentures for soldiers just for
be turned in at the Rail Tranapor-' hibita eitiaen» from looking at a what they call "morale purpose».”
tattoo Office—either ”B” or “C”— I girt in a manner described as “mak-
Hug the it round and live lunger.
upon tenuinatipn of employment ing goo-goo eyes.”
Gripsholm Story
Skilled Technicians Only in Prosthetic Department
I’iUliiTHETKS—which invai««* the highly
and dentures. finds upiy lruinad technician* per-
tar, ladknidaa Grace Chandler in ihr prares* of
r»«é Beri RaUihart. 27$4h M<d- Del., working at
■Allied technical werh of staking plates, brida«-work
formlag their duties. Th.- left picture «hews 1abura-
satling up teeth «a dentare«. Photo, right, shows
the machine «bere f'uGMng and poli-hip* is dene.