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| New dental anesthesia technique ends that mush-mouthed feeling |
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Getting out of the dentist's office in comfort used to be as hard to do as pulling teeth. An emerging movement called minimally invasive dentistry (PDF) has equipped dentists with a host of new tools and techniques aimed at easing pain and anxiety and cutting down on anesthesia's annoying side effects. Among the developments:
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| Editorial :: No Fluoride; No Cavities |
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Yesterday I filled out a permission form and a questionnaire from a NSW university who want to come test our youngest's class for tooth decay to gather fluoride, diet and tooth decay statistics.
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| Easy Steps to Prevent Tooth Decay and Gum Disease |
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Dr. Weston Price was one of history's most amazing dentists. He studied many Indigenous people who never had any problems with rotting teeth until coming into contact with modern industrialization. They lived right into old age without any significant tooth decay. Yet when they began eating the standard diet of today, their teeth began to decay quite quickly. Interestingly, fluoride tooth pastes, fluoride in the water and fluoride treatments seem to do nothing positive for our teeth. In fa...
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| Putting bite on dental scheme - Australia |
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DENTISTS and their patients are abusing Medicare Dental to get unnecessary, excess or aesthetic work done on their teeth while the neediest patients miss out, health groups say.
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| Braces: Kids now have options |
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More parents are buying into the notion that even adolescents shouldn't be stuck in unsightly orthodontia.
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| Alzheimer's Link to Junk Food |
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There is bad news if you are a junk food junkie. Junk food may lead to Alzheimera TMs Disease.
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| Linking HUSKY, Charter Oak Programs Proves Painful |
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In Connecticut where fluoridation is state mandated, low-income residents suffer from lack of dental care.
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| Dental clinic sees demand grow daily People without insurance sign up for care |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan is fluoridated: "Davis says that because of the lack of regular dental care, they're seeing patients with severe tooth decay and periodontal disease, and many who are in pain."
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