RPHP announces the creation of a computer data base of a unique collection of 100,000 teeth of people born from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s

Two op-eds Paying Tribute to Test Ban Treaty Include Contribution of Baby Tooth Study
–The test ban treaty at 60: How citizen action made the world safer

–Mangano and Ritter: St. Louis baby-tooth survey helped make nuclear test ban a reality

100,000 Baby Teeth Ready For Scientific Research
– Click here to view the St. Louis Fox2 story about the baby tooth study
– Click here to read press release

– Click here to read August 15, 2021 History News Network article on study
– Click here to read the article in the August 2021 Washington Spectator

– Click here to read an article in the November 2021 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

– Click here to read the article in the University of North Carolina School of Public Health bulletin on the tooth study

– Click here to read the article in the Winter 2023 issue of Orion magazine

See below links to the original medical journal articles on the St. Louis baby tooth study

– Reiss LZ. Strontium-90 Absorption by Deciduous Teeth. Science. November 24, 1961. Volume 134. PP. 1669-1673.

– Rosenthal HL. Accumulation of Environmental 90Sr in Teeth of Children. Hanford Radiobiological Symposium, May 5-8, 1969. PP. 163-171.

– Rosenthal HL, et al. Incorporation of Fall-Out Strontium-90 in Deciduous Incisors and Foetal Bone. Nature, August 8, 1964. Volume 4945, PP. 615-616.

– Rosenthal HL, et al. Strontium-90 Content of Deciduous Human Incisors. Science. April 12, 1963. Volume 140, PP. 175-176.

– Kalckar HM. An International Milk Teeth Radiation Census. Nature. August 2, 1958. Volume 4831, PP. 283-284.

 –Moment of Tooth.” Newsweek magazine, April 25, 1960.

– August 30, 2022 podcast on the tooth study, featuring film-maker and tooth donor Nina Seavey

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–Newspaper photos, 1959 to 1970
–Articles from 1959 to 1965