American Dental Association, 1950s-1960s
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| Announcer | A Smile for Life College Days presented | 0:01 |
| by the American Dental Association. | 0:03 | |
| Narrator | Sometimes at football practice in college, | 0:06 |
| I thought about things. | 0:08 | |
| Like the face guard on my helmet. | 0:10 | |
| Had a Doctor Brandt described it, | 0:13 | |
| protection of my smile for life. | 0:15 | |
| One day thinking of that, | 0:18 | |
| I knew I'd better tell the coach something. | 0:21 | |
| "I wanted to see my dentist." | 0:23 | |
| "You got a toothache?", he asked. | 0:25 | |
| "No, not a toothache." | 0:27 | |
| "Then why the dentist?" | 0:29 | |
| I told him I felt something was wrong around my mouth. | 0:31 | |
| That anything wrong there should be checked by my dentist. | 0:35 | |
| So before you know it, | 0:38 | |
| I was in Doctor Brandt's office being x-rayed. | 0:39 | |
| What the doctor suspected, | 0:43 | |
| the x-ray proved my jaw bone had a hairline fracture. | 0:44 | |
| "When did it happen?" | 0:49 | |
| "I didn't know. | 0:51 | |
| I'd felt something funny for about a week." | 0:52 | |
| "A week?" | 0:56 | |
| Of all people, I should have realized | 0:57 | |
| that any mouth trouble could be a symptom | 0:59 | |
| of something serious that you should see | 1:01 | |
| the dentist right away. | 1:03 | |
| Not wait a week, or for a six month checkup. | 1:05 | |
| "A dentist is concerned with plenty | 1:08 | |
| more than cavities," he said. | 1:10 | |
| "Everything from fractures to oral cancer." | 1:12 | |
| He took me over to the hospital | 1:16 | |
| where he and another doctor fixed my jaw. | 1:17 | |
| Wiring it up in a system | 1:20 | |
| that made the T-formation looks simple. | 1:22 | |
| They told me I was lucky I hadn't aggravated the fracture, | 1:25 | |
| letting it go uncared for. | 1:28 | |
| As we left the hospital, | 1:31 | |
| I figured I was lucky to have a Doctor Brandt around | 1:33 | |
| and I smiled as best I could. | 1:37 |
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