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About 2,000 Americans, many desperately ill, have visited the Huggins Diagnostic Center, where a team of five dentists pulled out fillings in two custom-made "bubble operatories" designed to minimize exposure to toxins.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dental Hospital has 16 individual "operatories," ten general, and six specially equipped for more difficult surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive