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IT PAYS TO A33VXBTISE

The February Bulletin i t e m requesting that the Ed i to r be sent extra copiee

It has o f Dental Health Highlights has resulted i n Phi l Phair furnishing 25 oopies of a l l issues t o date and the promise of two copies regularly from now on. long been thought that the Bulletin is a good advertising medium and Phi l ' s response substantiates that belief,

However, Ph i l questions the llro'lmdabout w a y of directing.. . .requests t o the A , D, Amt1 by direct communication w i t h h i m , Phi l ehould oomprehend that the indirection employed has supplied two b i t s of space f i l l i n g copy for the Bulletin. thanks! Phil.

Granting that the extra copies of Highlight8 might have been secured

Anyhow,

REGIOUA~J MFATING

A meeting of 8,ste dental directore of U. S, P. H. Service Beg,ons I , I S and 111, and of Federal dental health personnel, wae held i n Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on March 3, 4, and 5. of Maine aad President of the regional group presided,

Dr, Alonza Garcelon, state dents1 director

An excellent program divided between i n f o r m a l , round-table discussions of dental health program evaluations and formal papers on Pennsylvania's highly developed program of c l e f t palate correction was preaented, businesa meeting P. H. S. Region I11 wa6 invited to join Regions I and I1 i n the organization and Dr, W i l l i a m D. Wellock of Massachusetts wae elected t o succeed Doctor Garcelon ae Preaident. Pealth Department colleagues were dezightful hosts (and hostesses).

In a f i n a l session

Dr. Lin Grace and his Pennsylvania

While it may not have been obvious t o many Bulletin readere, a typographical error i n the February Bulletin should be reported. In the %et Us Tel l Youll sketch on llChucktl Howell (page 52) the second sentence va8 supposed t o etart with 'We1' ( the ed i to r i a l %eii) rather than, a8 it appeared, flHetf. of the sentence is, obviously, changed by the word substi tution,

The context

CMADIm FLUO33IDATION PAP=

An excellent presentation, "Public Health Aspects of Water Fluoridationt1 by Gordon Bikiforuk, I>. D, S., M. S,, wae published in the February, 1954, issue of the Canadian Journa l of Public Health. Other than the use of the term " a r t i f i c i a l addition1\ the paper i s an excellent one, that w i l l well aerve as a reference i n answering anti-fluoridation propaganda.