1941: Dentistry

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Dental defects lead all causes for physical rejection of registrants under the Selective Service Act with 20.9 per cent, or over 200,000, of the 1,000,000 men rejected. This was sufficient to impress government defense and public health agencies with the fact, long known to dentists, that the teeth... ...