Science Fights Tooth Decay
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 2: Dental Films
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content: 1 Film reel (black and white, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 450 feet; duration: 15 minutes)
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content: 1957
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content: Reel OF 222.26
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Credits: Produced and directed by Leo Trachtenberg, written by O'Brien Boldt, cameramen: Vachel Blair and Ross Lowell, artwork: Tom H. Darlin, Thanks to the following agencies: Committee To Protect Our Children's Teeth, New York City Department of Health; New York State Department of Health, Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Copyright: Leo Trachtenberg, 1957. 

Summary: A meeting of adults/parents to learn about flouridation in water to help combat tooth decay. Tooth decay is a chronic disease that can affect general health. Dr. Basil G. Bibby, of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochchester, discusses studies of areas with and without flouride in the water, assuages fears of safety of flouridation in water, and displays graphics on costs of flouridation.