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4 - Morrisville and Preston Progress. Thursday. March 26. 1998 Pint-sized patients open wide Preston pediatric dentist practices on tiny teeth By Mary Beth Phillips The size of the patients in the den tists chair is becoming smaller and smaller, as dentists now urge parents to take their children for a check-up as young as 12 months old. Rob Moran is one of those den tists. He opened his office in Preston Comers (behind Jaspers) about six months ago. He is the second pedi atric dentist in the Cary area, and though most of his patients are three years old and up, he follows the urg ing of the American Dental Association and encourages chil dren as young as 1 to get a checkup. “We like to make sure their teeth are coming in right and their enamel is forming properly,” he said. “We like to prevent and watch rather than have to fix.” It also gets the infant used to com ing to the dentist and having people look in his mouth, Moran said. He cautions parents of young chil dren not to use toothpaste until age 2. (Too much fluoride can be bad for you, and most children that young swallow all their toothpaste). He also says that night lime nursing should be stopped by 18 months for proper tooth development. At that age, he docs not push teeth cleaning, although he will do it if requested. His office is wide open. Now he has one dental chair, but he will soon be installing more side by side. This enables “modeling” to occur. “If a child is anxious, and he sees someone else in the chair doing fine, he won’t cry,” Moran said. He acknowledged that the opposite case is sometimes true, where one crying will set off the other. “Dr. Rob” wears a wild doctor’s shirt with colorful frogs on it, and lets the children choose toys from a big toybox as they come to the den tal chair. He never puts on his mask until the child is comfortable with him. He hands out pretzel shaped tooth brushes to the young ones, and each child has his or her picture taken so they can receive their “Good Checkup Award” as they leave. In pediatric dentistry, you have to introduce everything really slowly, Moran said. The dental handpiece is named “Mr. Whistle;” the slower handpiece is “Mr. Bum.py.” The word injection or shot is never used. The children are told the dentist is going to “wiggle and pinch and put their tooth to sleep.” After a child has been once, Moran knows how much time to allow. A particularly anxious child will receive more time for his appoint ment. Moran also teaches in the school of dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Fridays. He and his wife live in Chapel Hill. He said many dentists become anxious in treating children, but he enjoys it. “I wouldn’t do anything else but this,” he said. “It’s challenging, but it’s rewarding when you get a very scared child and you are able to work through his exam with no crying.” Dr. Rob Moran examines young Ben White, 17 months, with help from Ben’s mom in pediatric dentistry and encourages children as young as 12 months old to come Photo by Mary Beth Philtips Vicki. He specializes in for a check-up. Carpenter man documents local Civil War history sites Continued from page 1 Kilpatrick (Federal) started in west Raleigh, came through Cary (it was renamed Cary by the end of the war), through Morrisville and the Carpenter community and into Moringsvillc. Wheeler had about 2,500 cavalry troops to Kilpatrick’s 7,500, but Wheeler was trying to keep the northern cavalry away from General Joe Johnston and his main body of troops, which was in Raleigh. Johnston was trying to muster more troops to prepare for General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army, which was heading this way from Bentonville (in Johnston County), “so they started this skirmish with Wheeler hitting Kilpatrick and retreating, hitting Kilpatrick and retreating, and they headed down the Old Stage Road to Morrisville,” Edwards said. Johnston was actually trying to get to Greensboro to muster more troops, and had made it as far as Leesville when the war ended, Edwards said. One of the major skirmishes between Wheeler’s cavalry and Kilpatrick’s cavalry took place on Petty Farm Road in Carpenter, Edwards said. There has also been evidence of a battle or at least an encampment where now Cary Parkway and James Jackson Road intersect, near the Park Place Theater. When the southern cavalry got to New Hope Creek (at Moringsville), they blew up the bridge, Awards said. They were going to hold Kilpatrick’s people off. But a train came into Morrisville full of brand new 7-shot repeaters. Prior to that, everyone had single-shot rifles. The northern troops, armed with the new rifles, crossed the creek with no problem, Edwards said. Then word came that Lee had sur rendered to Grant at Appomattox. Soon after, Johnston met Sherman at Bennett Place. “I’ve heard that Johnston just about got the whole farm; Sherman took it back to Grant and Grant sent him back to Bennett Place. Grant explained to Sherman that he was the winning general,” Edwards chuckled. “From there, after the surrender was signed, the troops dispersed in all directions,” he said. While Sherman and Johnston were negotiating, about 10,000 to 15,000 of Sherman’s troops were camped along the ridge from Cary to Green Level, documents indicate. Edwards also speculates that there was a camp at some time during the war on the old Upchurch Farm behind the Morrisville Town Hall off Morrisville Carpenter Road. In fact, “we’ve found a lot of artifacts at the Upchurch farm that would indicate there was a hospital there at one time.” Evidence of a battle or an encamp ment has also been found between Weston and the Cedar Fork soccer fields. The unexploded bombs which were discovered several years ago were in a creek near the soccer fields. Many of the whole minie balls that can be found today were dropped by soldiers. Edwards said they would Residents oppose park’s name change Continued from page 1 Some people signed below the mar gin which allowed for 25 signatures to a page. “Luraley was very good to them (the Shiloh community),” Mrs. Baker said. “He worked to keep har mony; they respected him, he cer tainly respected their wishes. They haven’t forgotten that.” She also had about 10 calls on her answer machine the night before the meeting wanting to sign, but she could not gel to them in time, she said. She hasn’t continued with the petition since the meeting, although she is certain she could have gotten more signatures. “I think the petition would show the commissioners and the former mayor, who insisted that the name be changed, that there are people out there that was opposed to it,” she . said, “that there was no way that that should have been done. I hope this would open their eyes.” Case, who made the motion, had said he objected to parks being named for anyone, and that the com munity needed a park named for the community. Mrs. Faulkner said she was approached by several citizens requesting that the name be changed. Former mayor, Margaret Broadwell said she was not the insti gator of the name change. “Commissioners Silver-Smith and Faulkner have indicated to me that citizens had requested that they con sider such a policy change,” she said. “I understand the reasons for it and I concur with it. But I was not the one pushing for it.” Mrs. Baker’s motivation was sup port for the Lumleys. “I was raised at the Oxford orphan age. He’s a mason and a shriner, so he’s very dear to my heart. “She’s (Evelyn) the kindest lady, so pleasant,” Mrs. Baker added. “She was raised in the community; her heart is here. When you work somewhere for a length of time, it’s family, not just a job. He was very dedicated to this town and the peo ple. To take it away like that is just uncalled for.” She said she uses the park a lot with her grandchildren, and has Congressman Price to speak at Chamber April 9 Insurance Commissioner Jim Long will be the speaker at the Issues and Eggs breakfast March 26 at Sorrento’s beginning at 7:45 a.m. N.C. Rep. David Price will speak at the Issues and Eggs breakfast April 9. The chamber office will be closed April 10 for Good Friday. Plans arc shaping up for the golf outing to be held at Prestonwood Country Club on June 8. 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There were probably other soldiers camped near Morrisville during the four-year course of the war, but Edwards has not pinpointed these. He would like to know more about the hospital on the Upchurch Farm, because it was likely to have been there for several years. Perhaps it is the hospital that his great grandfather, 'William Clements, visited after he returned home injured from the first battle of Manassas (which the Northerners call Bull Run). “They discharged him, and he walked back to Morrisville,” Edwards said. It is unclear whether the iniurv was to his lee or his siHp but, “he got well again and walked back to 'Virginia. He joined his unit again just in time for the second bat tle of Manassas, and got his lower arm shattered. His arm was amputat ed below his elbow,” So he walked back to Morrisville again. Eventually he became superinten dent of Wake County Schools, and also served as a preacher to two churches in the Carpenter area. He is credited with establishing 17 churches in the area. Not bad for a man who had started out as an indentured servant at the Moring plantation and who married the plantation owner’s daughter. talked to the people who play there. “Most of the people down there using the park were from Cary or Apex, and they all were just so opposed to the change, but of course I didn’t get them to sign. . .. “I don’t know how many people went to them and told them that it ought to be changed. When it got right down to it, they couldn’t come up with any names.” She also was concerned that “that was the most important thing in this community that they needed to get done, instead of the sewer, the water, in just a month’s time in office.” “It just breaks my heart that some one has that much hatred and bitter ness in their heart to do this,” she said. 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