One of the most controversial subjects in recent medical history is discussed in this program. Dr. Rutstein presents a factual examination of the effect of fluorides on the teeth of small children and the possible effect on health and growth. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) Dr. David Rutstein, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard University, is featured in this series of 16 half-hour episodes designed to present medical facts and to indicate the difference between what is fact and what is opinion concerning any timely health problem. Selecting medical topics of interest to the family audience, Dr. Rutstein discusses modern medicine in a conversational format with Parker Wheatley, general manager of WGBH-TV, Boston. The original 40-week series, from which these episodes were selected for national distribution, originated over WGBH-TV through a grant-in-aid to Harvard University and the Lowell Institute from the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston. This series was originally recorded on kinescope. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
