The equipment may have been "cutting edge" 50 years ago, but the dental facilities in this picture, taken many decades ago at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children on the IUPUI campus, were fairly rudimentary compared to the way dentistry is practiced in the 21st century.

For instance, this week, a National Institutes of Health grant announcement insures a collaboration between researchers at the IU schools of Dentistry and Medicine to study dental plaque accumulation as a risk factor for heart disease. Read more at this Web site: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/1664.html