A health authority in southern England is planning to add fluoride to the drinking water of almost 200,000 residents in an attempt to improve the health of children's teeth. The board of the South Central...
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Over the last few years it has become increasingly difficult for patients to access NHS dentistry in the UK resulting in the deterioration in the health of teeth across Britain and especially amongst the poor....
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Tooth decay is for the most part avoidable in childhood if the correct diet and cleaning regime is in place and yet half of all children will have tooth decay by age 6. This new project gets kids to suck...
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These are some images of abandoned places around Ohio. A few of them are of the Ohio State Reformatory where the movie Shawshank Redemption was filmed.
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Gummy bears may be the solution for tooth decay problems amongst children. According to a U.S. study, xylitol, the sugar substitute may help prevent tooth decay. Xylitol is actually a naturally-occurring sugar...
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"Human trafficking flies below the radar of most people's consciousness, but it happens — even in New Orleans
By Sarah Andert
The Capri Hotel on Tulane Avenue was no place for human inhabitants in November 2005. Floodwaters from the levee breaches had inundated the building...
" 'Epidemic of tooth decay'. Group represents dentists, physicians, social workers The Quebec government was urged yesterday to force the city of Montreal to fluoridate its water supply and end what is described as "an epidemic of tooth decay" among the city's preschoolers....
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Each year Americans drink, on average, nearly 600 cans of soda apiece. What does that do to their teeth? Studies have pointed to soft drinks as being responsible for adult’s and children’s tooth decay and obesity problems. It is a huge problem.
Many sodas contain acids...
Filmmaker Ken Russell has criticised the "moral decay" of Britain following his Big Brother experience.
Russell, in Cardiff to promote south Wales as a Bollywood film location, left the house soon after Jade Goody, her mother and boyfriend arrived.
He said the country was...
Neglected, the other day, to note, at the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, the lovely and challenging work of the photographer Rosamund Purcell: about whom, more here..
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Researchers have discovered an isolated, self-sustaining, bacterial community living under extreme conditions almost two miles deep beneath the surface in a South African gold mine. It is the first microbial...
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" LiveScience Staff LiveScience.com Mon Aug 21, 10:30 AM ET Chewing gum, toothpaste and deodorant might soon contain beneficial bacteria to fight tooth decay and underarm stench . Strepptococcus mutans, or S. Mutans, is a bacterium that causes tooth decay. S. Mutans sticks to...
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It seems a typical scene of urban decay: abandoned buildings, crumbling walls, trash and broken wine bottles. Yet it's more than 1,500 years old. Engineers uncovered these ruins of an ancient Byzantine port during...