Baby Teeth Quotes

She led a study in the late 1950s where they collected 300,000 St Louis resident’s baby teeth with the ages of the time of collection and the data of birth. She and her colleagues were able to show that after each of the post WWII Nuclear Tests, the level of Strontium 90 increased in the teeth of the children. The results were published in the prestigious scientific journal Science in 1961. The study was presented to Congress by her husband—also a physician and it was also considered by President John F. Kennedy. It was also shared with the Russians and shortly thereafter the first of the Test Ban treaties was signed. At the time politicians had more respect for science than became the norm in the beginning of the 21st century but she retained her faith in the political process integrating and being informed by science. See {640558}.