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The Dental News of January 18, 2009


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Teeth Whitening and Hollywood - It's a Match!
I found this fun little website that gives out PR releases on happenings in Hollywood. Here are 2 new releases:Polished Teeth Make The ManTurns out Ben Affleck's teeth were just not up to snuff and it takes pearly whites to make a leading man. Affleck has...

3 women testify that Woodland dentist fondled them (The Sacramento Bee)
Dr. Mark Anderson's lawyer questioned patients' claims that they never went back to him. Three of the women who say Woodland dentist Mark Anderson touched them inappropriately in his exam room testified Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court. One told the jury that the dentist brushed her nipple with his finger. Another said Anderson slipped his hand beneath her bra and laid it on her ...

Smokers: Win a Laser Teeth Whitening Session
Win a laser teeth whitening session with a silly quiz and go to England! Seems silly and it is but it is all about taking notice of your smile and what smoking can do to darken your teeth. An ad going around the UK reads as follows:Is your New Year resolution...

Think Yellow Teeth Are Funny?
Think having yellow teeth is funny? Well, since it's close to the holidays, I thought that I would just look around and find a funny story to tell about teeth rather than promote the number one, one and only teeth whitening kit that I recommend.After all, if...

Minnesota proposal for new dental assistant sets dentists' teeth on edge

Minnesota dentists are all abuzz - and concerned - about the creation of a new mid-level job called oral health practitioner.

Dentists claim to care about the disparity in oral health care - unless it infringes upon their lucrative monopoly.

Examine the Dental Market: Techniques, Equipment and Materials (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Oral hygiene industry is available in its catalogue.

New Tool To Improve Oral Hygiene Developed By Scientists

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new dental product to identify plaque build-up in the mouth before it is visible to the human eye.

As Texas officials drag heels, children denied essential care

In 1993, 1.5 million Texas children living in poverty qualified for Medicaid, but half were not getting the care federal laws supposedly guarantee.

But "the most common problems we encountered were these horrible toothaches," Zinn told me in 2000.

Many dentists were turning children away because of Texas' miserly reimbursement rates. But many parents also didn't know Medicaid covers such things as dental care.


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