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received possibly were a little increased to the dental

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germinal layer due to soft component, would there be any
reason to examine these people by, say, yourself, or somebody
else familiar with the radiation effects on growing teeth.

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Judging from work we have done

with swine and rodents, I don't bd ieve this

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dose that you can expect to find enough dhange in the

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developing teeth, after they reach maturity, that you

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would find any changes.

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doses of 400 r before we found anything that was very -

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pertinent, and with rodents on their continually developing

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incisor teeth, you get up in the nature of 1,000 r, actually

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we used 1500 r, in order to get the stoppage of enamel

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incidence.

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and you would not have to go that far for record purposes as

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a minimum change.

is a sufficient

With swine, we were usually up in

With the rodents it is a very marked chang,e,

I would strongly suspect that 150 r would not

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show you anything.

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of having a group whose nutritional conditions and health

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some minimal changes, you could not pinpoint it down to

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Particularly would you have the trouble

in general are so varied that even if there were

radiation changes,

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whether levels of radiation such as these children

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CDR. CRONKITE:

because hyperplasia can occur from sumer oof

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