The Veterans Administration Dental Service had a new chief. Dr. Bion R. East, 63, dean of Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery since 1945, was appointed last week to a job vacant since the death last October of Dr. M. M. Fowler. Next month he will take over one of the least publicized and most expensive operations in the vast ($7,001,514,365-a-year) Veterans Administration programs.
So far, nearly a million World War II veterans have had their dentist bills paid by the U.S. Government. Total cost to the taxpayers: $67 million. The claims of 291,330 veterans for free dentistry are...
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