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Friday, August 31, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9B such non- lulate trust :hange Tai- al system if days, a lot of is or scared ruse of the icard in Tai- :come more safety,” said ial in charge irs. tion and put las made Fir ; Open Door s changes. Pingtan, the he mainland case of wage irds still are the Taiwan- the constant construction new income iwan citizen! i since 1975, 1 a campaign ration, Jiang en ,d severed the at, “We real; ct eye contati. in the face' ior may seem the problem, iew their fan- nimals. to blame the about protert- en are told to dogs—adiffi- ig is a favorite m to like dogs, em," Dr. Karl- : to monitor) minute, ttiais e way to deal LA Bath t Portible monitor developed to aid tooth grinders United Press International A Portable muscle activity mon itor developed at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio helps in the diagnosis of pains suffered by an estimated 10 million of the nation’s tooth grind ers. The tooth clenching, much of it attributed to stress, goes on during sleep, behind the wheel on crowded highways, or, in the case of highly competitive students, while studying ortaking exams. ‘Some patients are merely an noyed by a slight problem but for others, a TM J disorder is a serious disease that can interfere with vital functions such as eating and speak ing,” said Dr. M. Franklin Dolwick, an associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery who uses the monitor to diagnose patients. A report on the monitor in a pub lication of the health science center says it resembles a handheld calcula tor sprouting three tiny wires with electrodes at the ends. These electrodes are attached to the tooth grinder’s upper jaw mus cles. While the patient sleeps, or even during the day, the instrument re cords jaw muscle contractions. It is called a TM J monitor for the tempo romandibular joint — the body part that shares the anatomical damage when people grind or clench their teeth. The portable muscle activity mon itor stores the muscle contraction in formation for retrieval. It was invented by Dr. John Rugh and Chuck Burger, a health science center biomedical engineer. Rugh is associate professor of oral and max illofacial surgery. Rugh and Dolwick have patients hook themselves up to the device at night. If daytime tooth grinding and clenching is suspected, patients at tach the electrodes during the day. For daytime use, the monitor can be kept on a desk or in a pocket. At the press of a button, a display panel shows a reading of muscle contrac tion. For five years, Dolwick’s TMJ studies also have utilized arthrogra phy, a technique of seeing the inte rior of a joint and allowing doctors to detect cases in which the disk in side the joint is out of place. “Prior to this, if a regular X-ray showed that the joint was normal, the problem was thought to be a functional or muscle disorder,” Dol wick said. i “There were always about 20 per cent of the patients who didn’t re spond to treatments and we thought that they must have severe psycho logical problems. “Now we know that many of them have disk problems (the TMJ disk). For a small percentage of those, we have developed a surgical technique to reposition the disk if necessary,” Dolwick said. Other treatments for TMJ prob lems include medication, relaxation therapy and adjusting the teeth. “In the past, TMJ disorders were approached as a single disease that had a single solution, but we now know that there are various prob lems with sometimes very different treatments,” Dolwick said. The TMJ joint is unique, com pared to other body joints. It is a sliding hinged affair containing a disk and socket. It can move in all di rections. TMJ toubles show up as pain and soreness over the jaws in front of the ear, pain when moving the jaw as in chewing, jaw joint noise such as clicking or grating, and difficult opening or closing the jaw. Emergency shelters combat hot weather United Press International Schools closed early, emergency shelters were opened and a Kansas utility gave fans to poor people sweating out a late August heat wave Wednesday that pushed hot desert air into the Plains and sent the mer cury shooting toward 100 from Illi nois to Texas. Even before midday, hot air from the desert Southwest pushed north. It was 100 at Emporia, Kan.; 99 at Columbia, Mo.; 98 at Enid, Okla.; 96 at Wichita Falls, Texas; 95 at Dodge City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., and90 at Moline, Ill. In Illinois, dozens of temperature records were broken Wednesday, causing schools to close early and the opening of emergency shelters. A kansas utility gave fans to poor peo plesweating out the late August heat wave that sent the mercury shooting toward 100 from Illinois to Texas. St. Louis had a record 107, break ing the old record of 99, set in 1954 and other 100-plus readings were reported in downtown Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., as well as 110 at Wichita, Kan. Schools in Peoria and East St. Louis announced they would dismiss classes early. Schools in Wichita, Han., opened and closed about an hour early to avoid the afternoon heat. Air quality was expected to reach unhealthly levels for the second day in a row in Madison and St. Clair counties in southwestern Illinois. “If people have existing heart or respiratory problems or feel they may be susceptive of having repira- tory-type ailments they should try to restrict their physical activities to day,” Illinois Environmental Protec tion Agency Air Quality Manager Terry Switzer said. Three air-conditioned shelters and the municipal auditorium were opened in Topeka, Kan., where it was a record 106 Tuesday. Firefighters hoped to tke advan tage of a break in the weather to be gin containing fires that have scorched 150,000 acres of timber and grassland in Montana, and fire crews in Oregon worked on the re mains of a forest fire at Wampus Butte. “Weather conditions are in the 90s, but there are light winds and we’re in pretty good shape,” said Greg McLaren, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. “There have been no in juries.” Residents of Homer, Ill., cleaned up after a tornado that damaged 30 houses Tuesday night. “There’s pretty extensive damage in the center of town over an 8-to-10 block area,” Fire Chief Don Glenn said. Offshore drilling rig safety systems studied United Press International ST.JOHN’S, Newfoundand — A lanadian engineer who pioneered noffshore drilling urged an inter- lational safety conference early this (eek to give clear authority to one lerson on each ocean rig to oversee vacuadon and survival systems. Gordon Harrison, former presi- lent of Dome Petroleum’s subsid- iry, Canadian Marine Drilling, also old the start of the three-day session ponsored by the Royal Commission in the Ocean Ranger disaster that lirrent government codes and regu- itionson safety, evacuation and sur- ival procedures were “useless” in he sea conditions found off Cana- la’seast coast. i Harrison, who in 1968 designed he first offshore drilling platform isednear Nova Scotia’s Sable Island, aid industry, not government, hould be responsible for improving - afety standards and procedures. "Once clearly given the job to cre- tteasafe future for drilling on the Sst coast of Canada, the industry (ill respond with unrelenting pur- Ktse. Necessity is the mother of in- ention,” said Harrison, who now Ids a Houston-based company in- Dlved in off-shore drilling in the 5ulf of Mexico. Last week, the first report by the Commission investigating the Feb. 15, 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig said there had been a confusion on the rig over whether the marine captain or the rig’s tool- pusher, in charge of all mechanical drilling operations, had ultimate au thority. The disaster off the coast of Newfoundland claimed 82 lives. Harrison told about 250 engi neers and other offshore industry personnel that one person alone with each drilling project should be responsible for all the craft’s safety provisions “in return for unambi- gious accountability for safety.” That person should come from the com panies involved, he said, logically, “the licensee-operator who would be accountable for the unsafe conse- qences of the entire operation.” “Either he would state with certi tude that the vessel had adequate es cape and survival systems if the ves sel needed to be evacuated, or he would call a spade a spade — and point out that evacuation and survi val systems specified by government code and regulations were useless in sea conditions, common to the east coast of Canada. Obviously with to day’s state of the art, he would make the second choice,” Harrison said. DELTA VPSILOIYS Revenge of the NERD PARTY friday August 31 8:00 P. M. 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