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Tooth art: Crown bright,
mcolorful way of smiling
'iIm Associated Press
^WFRESNO — In nail art, manicur
ists paint small decorations on fin
gernails.
W)0500701Now there’s tooth art, in
which a Fresno dentist and his por-
" cehiin ceramist transfer designs to
dental crowns.
||iThe ceramic artwork ranges from
———, the symbolic, a ram’s head for a Bas
que shepherd; to the picturesque, a
Yosemite Valley landscape; to the
1 humorous, including cartoon char-
i acter Foghorn Leghorn, and a jack-
VI M“A woman wanted to be able to
shbw everyone her donkey, al
though she doesn’t really call it that,”
said Dr. William Clark.
Hpor patients in medical need of a
crown, Clark offers to add the deco
ration for free. About half of them
accept the offer, and he says hun-
I hursday drecls have been supplied.
iOuldbebldM“It started about five years ago as
toe hopes sort of dn experiment with putting
ordeadll colors and designs on porcelain,”
Clark said. “It started with one pa
tient, and it went from there.”
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The first painted crown pictured
eagle feathers embedded in a torqu-
oise stone for an Indian woman
nicknamed “Feather.”
“She was just ecstatic about it,”
Clark said.
He said the public generally has a
negative impression of dentistry and
that he hopes the ceramic art can
change some attitudes.
Crowns replace decayed, broken
or missing teeth. Patients receive a
man made version of a tooth above
the gum line, and the tooth art gen
erally covers about one-fourth of a
tooth face.
After patients are fitted for a
crown and pick a design, “they
usually can’t wait to come back in for
the next appointment,” Clark said.
“They can appreciate the crown by
appreciating the art.”
The decoration generally appears
on the outer surface of a tooth be
hind the smile line.
“I don’t want it to look like a piece
of spinach when they smile,” he said.
“Usually, most of the designs are not
visible when a patient is in a normal
function of chewing, eating, smiling
or talking.
“They’re very small. They’re not
always easily seen. Some go as fir as
carrying a little flashlight with
them.”
One man with a design on the
back of a front tooth carries a mirror
to show off his miniature art.
Recipients range from a 16-year-
old girl with a butterfly on her crown
to a 76-year-old man with a Masonic
symbol.
The ceramist, Dave DeRoo, takes
an extra work day to paint the de
sign with a fine camel-hair brush on
a finished crown, apply a glaze and
fire the tooth at 1,800 degrees.
“There’s nothing we can paint in
the mouth,” Clark explained. “It’s
something we do out of the mouth
and in the lab.”
Clark can remove the designs in
dbout 90 seconds by scraping off the
top glaze — a task he has performed
only once for a former member of a
racing car team who no longer was
associated with the group.
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Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — When a dark
viltedb Hv named Tougaloo takes to the
eminbbti ‘ n ^ rance l nis spring, Touga-
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limn needed extra payor r — the school
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We’re hoping she does well,” said
John Williams, director of devel
opment at the small, isolated, pre
dominately black school in north
Jackson.
L; The horse’s owner, Landon
Knight of Akron, Ohio, said he be-
came interested in Tougaloo College
after finding out his father and
andfather Triad made donations to
e private, liberal arts school.
Knight’s family has been donating
to the college for about 50 years,
Williams said.
1 “They’ve been modest about it,”
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Williams said, “and, in the past few
years, creative.”
The school is winding up a fund
raising campaign, Williams said, and
its share of Tougaloo’s earnings will
help update facilities.
To help both Tougaloos’ chances,
the horse has been shipped to
France for training. “It’s where the
best horses race,” Knight said.
Horses usually begin racing late in
their second year, but TougdlOo will
probably begin a little early, Knight
said.
Tougaloo will be raced in France
through her third year, then
brought back to the United States
for races on grass courses.
“If she’s a success in France, she
could have a leg up on horses that
have been running on dirt here,”
Knight said.
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Comic-book superhero
to help fight child abuse
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Spider-Man, the comic-book superhero, will discuss how
he was sexually abused as a child in a special comic supplement to be distrib
uted to millions of readers in major newspapers this Sunday.
The supplement, produced by the Marvel Comics Group in cooperation
with the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, lists agencies
abused children can call and is aimed at helping youngsters realize they are
not to blame for such abuse.
i In the supplement, The Amazing Spider-Man opens up to Tony, a boy
who has been abused by his baby sitter.
Anne Cohn, executive director of the committee, said probably more
tan 500,000 children are sexually abused each year in the United States.
“In Spider-Man’s case, he reveals that he himself was molested ... and he
turned out OK,” she said. “So, there’s a very special message there for chil
dren who may have been sexually abused, telling them it can turn out OK
for you.”
1 The supplement will reach about 6.6 million households, Cohn said.
Vacant
offices
decline
Associated Press
HOUSTON — For just
$415,000 a business can get a
three-year lease on a 12,500-
square-foot office in central
Houston — and a new Mercedes.
Bob Richie, a spokesman for
United Ventures, said he’s re
ceived several calls on the prop
erty since he advertised the car
giveaway in a Houston newspa
per.
“Lots of people are willing to
lease an office, but not the whole
thing as required by our offer,”
said Richie, whose firm is leasing
the two-story building.
Realty experts say a crunch in
the oil industry and a building
boom in the last decade created
the office space glut, but they also
project the leasing market will re
cover.
“The Houston market is re
bounding very well,” said David
Raspier, senior vice president of
the Houston office of Julien J.
Studley Inc., a New York-based
realty firm.
Raspier said vacant office space
declined in December 1984 oy 5
million square feet. About 36 mil
lion square feet of office space
was available in December of
1983, compared to 31 million
square feet available at the end of
last year, he said.
About 19.4 million square feet
of newly built office space was va
cant at the beginning of this year,
a 22.4 percent decrease from 25
million square feet that was not
occupied a year ago, he said.
Figures released by Coldwell
Banker Commercial Brokerage
Co. indicate Houston office con
struction increased from 13.9
million square feet in 1981 to 20.6
million square feet in 1982 and
21.6 million square feet in 1983.
Antique-toy collector traces
society’s history with hobby
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Associated Press
I ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Lehigh
County Executive David Bausch be
lieves it’s necessary to have a knowl
edge of history to understand the
present.
1 For Bausch, the past comes alive
in the form of antique toys he’s been
collecting.for 35 years.
1 He bought many of the toys in his
Collection at auctions that he began
attending as a child.
I While his mother and late father
went to public sales primarily to buy
farm implements, Bausch looked for
purchases he could make for a quar
ter, which, at that time, bought far
tnore than it does today.
1 Bausch seldom purchases an item
without knowing about its history.
; He reads many books and mag
azines on the subject of collecting
and serves As president of the An
tique Toy Collectors of America.
I Although wheeled vehicles form
be bulk of his collection, Bausch
ilso is interested in banks, political
toys, and dioramas.
Some items in his collection were
lade locally; others were manufac
tured in various parts of the country
'and in Europe.
A number of the toys were made
to commemorate specific historic
events. One Model T Ford is a re
production of a car used in playing
polo, Bausch says.
There’s a story, too, behind the
long horse-drawn farm wagon
whose wooden top opens up to form
the wings of an airplane.
An aviation pioneer in France was
thought to be a sorcerer because of
his experiments and was forced to
smuggle the parts for his airplane
out of town in such a vehicle so he
could assemble them in the country.
Bausch has a photograph of the
original wagon.
One unusual toy in his collection
is a double-decker bus with a body,
exterior stairs and top deck maae
from wood fretwork.
Another toy features a tap dancer
who goes into action when a person
speaks into the accompanying mi
crophone.
A coin placed in the slot of a me
chanical bank sets a dog, which
jumps through a hoop, into motion.
Bausch also has a miniature re-
E reduction of a Model T assembly
ne.
Bausch has restored some his col
lectables himself, but has avoided a
lot of that by being selective in his
purchases. However, he says today
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toys are more difficult to find,
you cannot be too selective because
Will toys being sold today grow in
lue like those from the past?
While many of the items relate to
the past, a few are of more recent
origin.
Bausch believes they will.
Noting that the things youngsters
identify with today will form the ba
sis for their collections one day, he
points out that toys can help recall
events associated with the past.
Bausch says that anything made to
commemorate a specific event will
increase in value. He says it is diffi
cult, though, to predict what will be
come a collector’s item.
Bausch lectures frequently to civic
groups on antique toys and some
times takes reproductions with him
to demonstrate to the audience how
to distinguish the real thing from a
facsimile.
Toys, Bausch says, “tell the story
of the development of society.”
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